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.
Population over time
2 figuresAkaska 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 42 | |
| 2020 | 77 | +35 (+83%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Akaska quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS La Plant quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2011Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DRINK |
| 24 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GOETZ |
| 13 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FREY RD |
Storms near this place
31 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Flood | Akaska | $292,300 | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | Estimated sixty mph winds brought down several large tree branches. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | A large cottonwood tree was downed by seventy mph winds. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Akaska | - | The first confirmed tornado touchdown was three miles south of Akaska. This was a brief touchdown with no damage reported. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Akaska | - | A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage reported. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Flood | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Flood | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Akaska | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Akaska | - | 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 Akaska | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3239628 | 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 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.



