Silver Lake Colony, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Day Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57225. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle. 7 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Silver Lake Colony within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Silver Lake Colony between 1999 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	5
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
1 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CLARK
19 June 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clark County	434TH AVE
23 May 2014	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WOLSEY
6 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	STRANS 1401
23 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	JOHNSON
28 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MAYNARD FIRE
17 November 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	WOOKEY
1 November 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	7.0 acres	Clark Volunteer Fire Department	LAIRD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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
Elrod	2.4 miles	8
Hillcrest Colony	5.6 miles	8
Garden City	6.0 miles	8
Clark	6.2 miles	8
Naples	9.1 miles	8
Julian (historical)	11.6 miles	8
Mayfield Colony	12.6 miles	8
Vienna	13.4 miles	8

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 Silver Lake Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108684976	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 2724513. 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.