Rustic Acres Colony, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57042. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Trading Post quadrangle.

Rustic Acres Colony within Lake 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.

1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Buffalo Trading Post quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rustic Acres Colony between 1999 and 2015, burning about 466 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	4
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
23 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 19
20 May 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SV ENERGY
30 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FODS
30 April 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	4 MILE FIRE
21 April 2009	Debris and open burning	425 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
31 March 2004	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Madison Wetland Management District	SCHAEFER 04
24 March 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PULSCHER
9 November 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Colton Volunteer Fire Department	DONALD ORDAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake 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
Franklin	1.8 miles	6
Orland	5.4 miles	6
Orland (historical)	5.8 miles	6
Smiths Park	6.6 miles	7
Peninsula Park	6.7 miles	6
Chautauqua	7.7 miles	6
Brant Lake	8.8 miles	7
Chester	8.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122564558

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 2724474. 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.