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Webster Grove Addition, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sioux Falls City. It lies in ZIP code area 57107. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sioux Falls West quadrangle.

Webster Grove Addition within Minnehaha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

In the county-history sources

79,863 words on this township

History of Minnehaha County, South Dakota. Containing an Account of Its Settlements, Growth, Development and Resources ... Synopsis of Public Records, Biographical Sketches .., published 1899 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sioux Falls City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sioux Falls City - 79,863 words.

Fires near this place

46 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Webster Grove Addition between 1999 and 2020, burning about 196 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning7
Natural4
Fireworks3
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 August 1999Smokingunder an acreAlcester Volunteer Fire DepartmentLEE Z.
2 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
19 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
11 August 1999Natural1.0 acresMound City Volunteer Fire DepartmentKON THORSTENSON
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCULBERT
4 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSANDS
4 July 2007Fireworks1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minnehaha County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Webster Grove Addition: 7 producers, 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Concrete Materials Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Concrete Materials Company QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Quartzite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Beckman Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bill Gage Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Carey Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fodness Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Friessen Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Friessens West PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Minnehaha 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Silver Valley Addition1.1 miles9
Hayward Addition1.2 miles9
Ellis1.4 miles9
Reppert Addition1.9 miles9
West Acres Development2.9 miles9
Martindale Addition3.7 miles9
Ellis Corner3.8 miles9
El Rancho Acres4.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264906. 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.