Westwood Colony, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Newark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57430. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Westwood Colony 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
1953 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Westwood Colony between 2008 and 2020, burning about 932 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	7
Debris and open burning	3
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
25 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BREMMON GRASS
4 June 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KIDDER FIRE
7 May 2016	Debris and open burning	25 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NORTH QUARTER
3 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	650 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BRITTON
16 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DOUG HENLEY RESTART
14 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	NORTH SECTION
12 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BROKEDOWN
28 March 2016	Debris and open burning	10 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DON MUELLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Newark	3.0 miles	7
Kidder	3.6 miles	7
Britton	6.8 miles	7
West Britton	7.2 miles	7
Amherst	12.6 miles	6
Spain	12.7 miles	6
Newport Colony	16.4 miles	6
Langford	19.8 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.

Wikipedia article on Westwood Colony	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q108760249	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 2724517. 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.