Spring Grove, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Grove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57257. The Survey maps it on the Summit NE quadrangle.

Spring Grove within Roberts County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Summit NE quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Spring Grove between 1992 and 2018, burning about 463 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Fireworks	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
22 September 1998	Debris and open burning	104 acres	Sisseton Agency	PIES
16 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Sisseton Agency	TWOSTAR
10 September 2000	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Sisseton Agency	OWL LAKE
7 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sisseton Agency	MILE MARKER
6 July 2006	Fireworks	1.6 acres	Sisseton Agency	OWL LAKE
5 July 2002	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Sisseton Agency	CLARKSCORN
3 May 2018	Debris and open burning	43 acres	Sisseton Agency	SKODEN
2 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Sisseton Agency	GERMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Rudebusch Corner

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Spring Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Roberts 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
Rudebusch Corner	6.0 miles	7
Goodwill	7.2 miles	6
Peever Flats	7.4 miles	12
Peever	7.5 miles	12
Wilmot	10.9 miles	6
Summit	11.0 miles	7
Ortley	11.9 miles	7
Valley View Estates	13.8 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261144. 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.