Valley View Estates, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Long Hollow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57262. The Survey maps it on the Sisseton quadrangle.

Valley View Estates within Roberts 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.

1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Valley View Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 468 acres in total. 2 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	19
Debris and open burning	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	4
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
27 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SWO HOUSING AUTHORITY
17 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Sisseton Agency	KING
16 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RAYMOND GERMAN
14 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Sisseton Agency	TEKAKWITHA
11 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	I-29
8 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	GOODHEART
6 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Sisseton Agency	LONGHOL2
5 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Roberts County	AGENCY VILLAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Valley View Estates: 4 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dan Brown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Helwig Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lotzer Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Markaseth 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
Long Hollow Housing	2.7 miles	6
Sisseton	4.0 miles	6
Goodwill	6.7 miles	6
Peever	11.8 miles	12
Peever Flats	13.4 miles	12
Spring Grove	13.8 miles	7
Claire City	14.1 miles	6
Dahlberg	14.3 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1263908. 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.