Agar, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Agar town. It lies in ZIP code area 57520. The Survey maps it on the Agar quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,850 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAgar fell from 76 to 68 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 76 | |
| 2020 | 68 | -8 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Pierre quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Agar quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Onida quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Agar between 1998 and 2012, burning about 798 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 4 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 26 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Mound City Volunteer Fire Department | ROD ACKER |
| 27 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | AGAR |
| 27 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LEW ROB BENNET |
| 19 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Agar Volunteer Fire Department | ASMUSSEN FARMS |
| 29 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 21 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Agar: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
44 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agar in 44 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 30 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Hail | Agar | - | A destructive hail and wind storm left Potter county and entered northern Sully county continuing to the southeast and destroying crops and grassland until the storm weakened near Onida. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Agar | - | Golf ball hail broke all windows on the north side of the house. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | Seventy mph winds downed a tree in the yard. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Agar | - | Golfball hail broke several windows on the house and car. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Agar | - | Hail up to the size of softballs caused some roof, siding, and vehicle damage on a farm. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | One hundred mph winds downed many trees and power lines and poles in and around Agar. A mobile home was severely damaged. Also, a garage, many sheds and grains bins were severely damaged or destroyed. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Agar | - | Large hail combined with strong winds damaged buildings and broke windows on structures and vehicles. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | Large hail and high winds caused tree, structural, and vehicle damage in Agar. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | Sixty mph winds brought down a large evergreen tree. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Agar | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Agar | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Agar | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q957268 | 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 1253593. 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.



