Philip Junction, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Grandview II Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57567. The Survey maps it on the Philip Junction quadrangle.

Philip Junction within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 printed sheets

Matched 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.

1953 USGS Philip Junction quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kadoka quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Philip Junction between 1998 and 2018, burning about 176 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
8 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
20 August 2006	Smoking	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
7 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MOODY
29 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
24 July 2012	Natural	4.8 acres	Nebraska National Forest	HIGHWAY 73
18 July 2018	Natural	100 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JULSON
16 July 2005	Natural	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
1 April 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Philip Volunteer Fire Department	CROWSER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Sevenmile Corner

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Philip Junction: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Michael Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Millage Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sevenmile Corner	9.0 miles	6
Kadoka Junction	11.6 miles	6
Kadoka	12.1 miles	6
Cottonwood	13.0 miles	6
Weta	13.5 miles	6
Cactus Flat	15.3 miles	6
Belvidere	22.6 miles	6
Interior	23.8 miles	6

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122593460

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1262198. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.