Rockport Colony, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Beulah Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57311. The Survey maps it on the Rockport Colony quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Rockport Colony within Hanson County

On record in Rockport Colony

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Old Rockport Hutterite Colonylisted 1982 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Rockport Colony quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Rockport Colony between 1998 and 2020, burning about 204 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	6
Debris and open burning	4

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 2020	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TURKEY BARN
26 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KEN ZEB
2 April 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RIGGS FIRE
2 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JT2 FIRE
12 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TUTTLE #1
23 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ALBERTZ'S BLAZE
12 November 2005	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
23 October 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	M ROYSTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hanson County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rockport Colony: 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hanson 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
Alexandria	5.8 miles	12
Millbrook Colony	6.4 miles	12
Oak Lane Colony	7.1 miles	11
Maywood (historical)	7.4 miles	11
Bard (historical)	9.1 miles	12
Fulton	9.9 miles	12
Riverside	11.3 miles	12
Emery	11.5 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 Rockport Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7355538	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 1257441. 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.