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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.

Agar within Sully County

Population over time

2 figures

Agar 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.

YearPeople Change
201076
202068-8 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Fires near this place

16 since 1998

Regional 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 use7
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 September 1998Naturalunder an acreMound City Volunteer Fire DepartmentROD ACKER
27 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionAGAR
27 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLEW ROB BENNET
19 August 1999Naturalunder an acreAgar Volunteer Fire DepartmentASMUSSEN FARMS
29 July 2003Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sully 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sully County

Storms near this place

44 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019HailAgar-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 2019HailAgar-Golf ball hail broke all windows on the north side of the house.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindAgar-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAgar-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAgar-Seventy mph winds downed a tree in the yard.
June 2008HailAgar-Golfball hail broke several windows on the house and car.
August 2006HailAgar-Hail up to the size of softballs caused some roof, siding, and vehicle damage on a farm.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAgar-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 2004HailAgar-Large hail combined with strong winds damaged buildings and broke windows on structures and vehicles.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAgar-Large hail and high winds caused tree, structural, and vehicle damage in Agar.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAgar-Sixty mph winds brought down a large evergreen tree.
May 2024HailAgar-no account filed
June 2022HailAgar-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
September 2018HailAgar-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
June 2014HailAgar-no account filed
May 2012HailAgar-no account filed
June 2009HailAgar-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
September 2008Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
June 2008HailAgar-no account filed
June 2008HailAgar-no account filed
June 2006HailAgar-no account filed
August 2006HailAgar-no account filed
August 2006HailAgar-no account filed
August 2006HailAgar-no account filed
August 2006HailAgar-no account filed
August 2006HailAgar-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
August 2004HailAgar-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
August 2004HailAgar-no account filed
October 2004HailAgar-no account filed
October 2004HailAgar-no account filed
June 2002HailAgar-no account filed
June 1998HailAgar-no account filed
July 1998HailAgar-no account filed
June 1997HailAgar-no account filed
August 1997HailAgar-no account filed
July 1996HailAgar-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindAgar-no account filed
July 1996HailAgar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sully 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Onida9.0 miles5
Eakin15.5 miles6
Okobojo21.4 miles6

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 AgarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q957268The 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.