BlockPeninsula Park, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lake View Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57075. The Survey maps it on the Lake Madison quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Lake Madison quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Peninsula Park between 1999 and 2014, burning about 148 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2001 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department | NISSEN |
| 4 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | US HIGHWAY 115 AND 281ST |
| 13 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 23 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 8 May 2009 | Debris and open burning | 42 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CAVINESS |
| 26 March 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Madison Wetland Management District | MADISON |
| 5 December 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.4 acres | Madison Wetland Management District | MADISON WF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smiths Park | 1.0 miles | 7 | |
| Brant Lake | 3.6 miles | 7 | |
| Chautauqua | 3.6 miles | 6 | |
| Wentworth | 4.3 miles | 7 | |
| Franklin | 4.9 miles | 6 | |
| Chester | 5.6 miles | 7 | |
| Rustic Acres Colony | 6.7 miles | 6 | |
| Madison | 6.9 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1257008. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.