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Armour, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Armour City. It lies in ZIP code area 57313. The Survey maps it on the Armour quadrangle. 698 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,529 feet above sea level.

Armour within Douglas County

On record in Armour

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Armour fell from 699 to 698 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
2010699
2020698-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

58 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Armour between 1999 and 2020, burning about 834 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresYankton AgencyBUBBA
6 September 2014Debris and open burning25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEHREN GRUPE
29 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHEBER 11-00033
13 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGREENWAY202001
4 July 2017Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionZOSS1701
26 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDWERKMEISTER1701
23 June 2002Natural1.0 acresArmour Volunteer Fire DepartmentTERRY TOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

45 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armour in 45 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 15 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindArmour1 hurt, $10,000Semi truck and trailer blown off the road.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindArmour$1,000,000no account filed
September 2019Flash FloodArmour$100,000All roads leading into Delmont became impassable, with 6 inches or more flowing water over the roads. Numerous township roads in southeast Douglas County were also under water with several washed out culverts.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindArmour$50,000Buildings damaged in Armour.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindArmour$50,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a large machine shed, ripping its roof off. Two tractors, a van, two loaders and one sprayer inside the shed were damaged.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindArmour$40,000Thunderstorm winds damaged several farm outbuildings. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 1997Flash FloodArmour$20,000no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindArmour$10,000Thunderstorm winds ripped a porch off a motel.
July 1996LightningArmour$10,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindArmour-Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on the north side of Armour.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station, with a peak of 68 mph at 801 pm CST.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm wind gust was measured by personal weather station DVI09260 near Armour.
April 2022HailArmour-Quarter size hail fell on the north side of Armour.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindArmour-Widespread tree damage throughout Armour.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindArmour-Significant tree damage.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 4 inch diameter branches blown down.
June 2009HailArmour-Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage.
June 2009Flash FloodArmour-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads, ditches, and fields. Water 6 inches deep was reported over roads in Armour, and a small creek was reported over its banks 9 miles north of Avon, where 2.5 inches of rain was measured during a one hour period.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including several large trees blown down, a few of which were uprooted. Much of the tree damage was at a cemetery, at which some gravestones were damaged by the wind or by falling trees. Crop damage was also reported, with the winds blowing corn over, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
May 2007Flash FloodArmour-Heavy rain caused flash flooding od roads, ditches, and fields.
June 2007Flash FloodArmour-Heavy rain caused flooding of many fields, roads, and other low areas.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off a grain elevator and blew down several trees.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindArmour-Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines, resulting in a power outage.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Armour-A tornado destroyed the roof and one wall of a barn..
June 2003Tornado (F0)Armour-A weak tornado tracked across farmland.
July 2003HailArmour-Large hail fell in a strip four miles wide and about 8 miles long, damaging crops, especially corn. The amount of crop damage was not known.
July 2020HailArmour-no account filed
June 2018HailArmour-no account filed
August 2017HailArmour-no account filed
June 2017HailArmour-no account filed
June 2017HailArmour-no account filed
June 2017HailArmour-no account filed
June 2009HailArmour-no account filed
August 2007HailArmour-no account filed
August 2004HailArmour-no account filed
June 2003HailArmour-no account filed
October 2001HailArmour-no account filed
October 2001HailArmour-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindArmour-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindArmour-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindArmour-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Douglas City (historical)4.5 miles9
Grandview (historical)5.5 miles9
Corsica8.0 miles9
Delmont10.4 miles9
Harrison12.3 miles9
Hillside12.6 miles9
Greenwood Colony12.7 miles9
New Holland15.8 miles9

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 ArmourAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2235927The 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 1253684. 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.