Spring Valley Colony, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Crow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57382. The Survey maps it on the Gannvalley quadrangle.

Spring Valley Colony within Jerauld 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 Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Gannvalley quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Huron quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley Colony between 2000 and 2020, burning about 378 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	3

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
10 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	PETERSON
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SPRING VALLY
7 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Jerauld County	SWENSON BALE WEST
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KOLOUSEK
19 July 2000	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	REESE 2
18 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	120 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	LANDMARK TOWER
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
9 March 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Crow Lake

Every fire recorded in Jerauld County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Spring Valley Colony: 2 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.

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

Every working recorded in Jerauld 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
Crow Lake	9.7 miles	11
Wessington Springs	17.0 miles	7
Lane	24.6 miles	9
Alpena	29.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1258289. 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.