BlockPlatte Colony, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in La Roche Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57369. The Survey maps it on the Lucas NW quadrangle. 299 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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 Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Lucas NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Winner quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Platte Colony between 2006 and 2012, burning about 295 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PLATTE COLONY #3 |
| 14 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 150 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 14 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TJEERDSMA RX 11-014 |
| 23 February 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MIDNIGHT 12-004 |
| 6 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | R JOHNSON 11-031 |
| 31 October 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Platte Colony: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buryanek Gul Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Platte | 16.0 miles | 9 | |
| Bovee | 21.4 miles | 9 | |
| Wheeler (historical) | 26.2 miles | 9 | |
| Geddes | 27.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lake Andes | 37.8 miles | 11 | |
| Lake View Colony | 39.1 miles | 10 | |
| Dezera | 39.2 miles | 11 |
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 Platte Colony | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q108684999 | 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 1265323. 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.