BlockSeneca Town
The complete chapter on this township from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909. 113 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seneca | 2 | 21 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
113 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Seneca Town
The village of Seneca is located ih the town of Seneca, on the line of the Redfield and Gettysburg branch on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, fifty -four miles west of Redfield and twenty-two miles west of P'aulkton, the county seat of Faulk county, and in the center of one of the finest sections of rich agricultural and grazing land to be found in the great northwest. From its location and surroundings, it is, and ever must remain the important business center of western Faulk county. At this writing, Seneca contains two hundred twenty-five inhabitants and the following business houses and wnth its various branches of business indicates a live, enterprising town, viz:
Provenance
Text from History of Faulk County, South Dakota, Together with Biographical Sketches of Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, published 1909, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.