BlockRiverside Colony, South Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Iowa Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57350. The Survey maps it on the Huron NW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1898 USGS Huron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Huron NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Huron quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Riverside Colony between 1999 and 2014, burning about 84 acres in total. None 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | JONKERS |
| 25 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Huron Volunteer Fire Dept. | DARRELL HOFER |
| 21 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KIRK FORD |
| 17 February 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | McLaughlin Volunteer Fire Department | COAL BIN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Huron Colony | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Yale | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| Morningside | 8.7 miles | 10 | |
| Huron | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Cavour | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| James Valley Junction | 11.0 miles | 9 | |
| Broadland | 11.1 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1257408. 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.