West Acres Development, South Dakota

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

West Acres Development 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.

1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Sioux Falls West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of West Acres Development between 1999 and 2015, burning about 182 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	3
Fireworks	2
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
2 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
11 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Mound City Volunteer Fire Department	KON THORSTENSON
4 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	CULBERT
4 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	SANDS
4 July 2007	Fireworks	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	not named
2 July 1999	Natural	under an acre	Long Valley Volunteer Fire Department	LANG VALLEY
15 July 1999	Natural	80 acres	Murdo Volunteer Fire Department	HERMAN RANCH
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	HWY 38

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minnehaha County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of West Acres Development: 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Concrete Materials Co Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Concrete Materials Company Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bill Gage Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carey Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Fodness Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Friessens West Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Miller Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Vincent Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ellis	2.2 miles	9
Webster Grove Addition	2.9 miles	9
El Rancho Acres	3.1 miles	9
Silver Valley Addition	3.2 miles	9
Country Acres	3.4 miles	8
Hayward Addition	3.9 miles	9
Reppert Addition	4.2 miles	9
Ellis Corner	4.3 miles	9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122568149

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1264907. 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.