West Britton, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Miller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57430. The Survey maps it on the Britton West quadrangle.

West Britton within Marshall 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
1956 USGS Britton West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

39 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of West Britton between 2010 and 2020, burning about 982 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	34
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
8 September 2013	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Marshall	# 34 BURN
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ZASTROW FIRE
25 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BREMMON GRASS
14 September 2013	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Marshall	ART BOTTOM
9 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	& SLOUGH BURN
31 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	ALDENTALER FIRE
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BUHL/GROOM FIRE
23 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DIDRECKSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 West Britton: 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
	Benke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall 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
Britton	4.6 miles	7
Amherst	5.8 miles	6
Spain	6.7 miles	6
Westwood Colony	7.2 miles	7
Kidder	9.1 miles	7
Newport Colony	9.3 miles	6
Newark	9.8 miles	7
Langford	13.1 miles	7

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 Q122552765

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 1261152. 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.