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Akaska, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Akaska town. It lies in ZIP code area 57420. The Survey maps it on the Akaska quadrangle. 77 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,778 feet above sea level.

Akaska within Walworth County

Population over time

2 figures

Akaska grew from 42 to 77 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
201042
202077+35 (+83%)

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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Akaska between 2011 and 2020, burning about 5 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/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDRINK
24 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGOETZ
13 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFREY RD

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akaska in 31 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 2 tornado. 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
April 2019FloodAkaska$292,300no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAkaska-Estimated sixty mph winds brought down several large tree branches.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindAkaska-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindAkaska-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindAkaska-A large cottonwood tree was downed by seventy mph winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAkaska-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAkaska-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Akaska-The first confirmed tornado touchdown was three miles south of Akaska. This was a brief touchdown with no damage reported.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Akaska-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage reported.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindAkaska-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAkaska-no account filed
July 2023HailAkaska-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAkaska-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAkaska-no account filed
June 2019FloodAkaska-no account filed
May 2019FloodAkaska-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAkaska-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAkaska-no account filed
August 2016HailAkaska-no account filed
August 2016HailAkaska-no account filed
July 2016HailAkaska-no account filed
August 2015HailAkaska-no account filed
June 2011HailAkaska-no account filed
June 2011FloodAkaska-no account filed
June 2010HailAkaska-no account filed
June 2007HailAkaska-no account filed
June 1994HailAkaska-no account filed
August 1993HailAkaska-no account filed
August 1993HailAkaska-no account filed
August 1993HailAkaska-no account filed
August 1993HailAkaska-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Lowry7.4 miles7
Selby12.9 miles7
Sitka13.2 miles7
Glenham16.0 miles7
Java17.1 miles7
Mobridge21.6 miles8

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 AkaskaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3239628The 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 1265103. 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.

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.