Spottswood, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57476. The Survey maps it on the Tulare quadrangle.

Spottswood within Spink County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1899 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Tulare quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Spottswood between 1999 and 2006, burning about 106 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 July 2006	Natural	4.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 July 2006	Natural	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
16 July 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
19 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
6 March 2000	Smoking	20 acres	Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department	SKARIN
26 November 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department	GLEN MARSHALLL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spink 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
Tulare	5.9 miles	8
Crandon	8.8 miles	10
Spink Colony	13.1 miles	11
Glendale Colony	15.4 miles	10
Redfield	15.4 miles	8
Frankfort	18.8 miles	10
LaDelle	20.6 miles	10
Bloomfield	21.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261143. 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.