BlockPlainview Colony, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rosette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57456. The Survey maps it on the Plainview Colony quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Plainview Colony quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Plainview Colony between 2013 and 2015, burning about 27 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WEIGEL |
| 13 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Edmunds County | JR HAMMRICH |
| 14 November 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HENDERSON |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Colony | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Ipswich | 9.5 miles | 7 | |
| Craven Corner | 10.2 miles | 8 | |
| Craven | 10.5 miles | 8 | |
| Beebe | 13.6 miles | 7 | |
| Mina | 16.7 miles | 8 | |
| Roscoe | 19.9 miles | 7 | |
| Powell | 20.3 miles | 7 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Plainview Colony | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q108730351 | 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 1257078. 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.