Aberdeen, South Dakota

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• Brown County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 23 shown

• Aberdeen Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1988
• William G. Bickelhaupt Houselisted 1989
• Brown County Courthouselisted 1976
• Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Depotlisted 1977
• Dakota Farmer Buildinglisted 1984
• Easton's Castlelisted 1973
• John H. Firey Houselisted 1995
• First United Methodist Churchlisted 1976
• Foght-Murdy Houselisted 1995
• Great Northern Railway Passenger and Freight Depotlisted 1983
• Margaret and Maurice Lamont Houselisted 1995
• Masonic Templelisted 1980

Every listing in Brown County

Aberdeen grew from 26,091 to 28,495 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1895 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Aberdeen East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Aberdeen between 2001 and 2020, burning about 385 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Melrose Addition
• Jobee Acres
• Harlin Addition
• Nahon
• Deevaan Villa Development
• Fisher Estates

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Aberdeen: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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.

Every working recorded in Brown County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aberdeen in 145 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 71 hail, 51 thunderstorm wind, 10 tornado, 8 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Brown County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1253581. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.