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.
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
Armour Historic Districtlisted 1978
Douglas County Courthouse and Auditor's Officelisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresArmour 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 699 | |
| 2020 | 698 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Armour quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lake Andes quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
58 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Yankton Agency | BUBBA |
| 6 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EHREN GRUPE |
| 29 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HEBER 11-00033 |
| 13 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GREENWAY202001 |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ZOSS1701 |
| 26 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DWERKMEISTER1701 |
| 23 June 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Armour Volunteer Fire Department | TERRY TOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
45 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | 1 hurt, $10,000 | Semi truck and trailer blown off the road. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Armour | $100,000 | All 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | $50,000 | Buildings damaged in Armour. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | $40,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged several farm outbuildings. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Armour | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds ripped a porch off a motel. |
| July 1996 | Lightning | Armour | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Numerous trees were downed by thunderstorm winds on the north side of Armour. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station, with a peak of 68 mph at 801 pm CST. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm wind gust was measured by personal weather station DVI09260 near Armour. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Armour | - | Quarter size hail fell on the north side of Armour. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Widespread tree damage throughout Armour. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Significant tree damage. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 4 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Armour | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Armour | - | 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Armour | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding od roads, ditches, and fields. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Armour | - | Heavy rain caused flooding of many fields, roads, and other low areas. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm winds blew part of the roof off a grain elevator and blew down several trees. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and power lines, resulting in a power outage. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Armour | - | A tornado destroyed the roof and one wall of a barn.. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Armour | - | A weak tornado tracked across farmland. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Armour | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Armour | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Armour | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas City (historical) | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Grandview (historical) | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Corsica | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Delmont | 10.4 miles | 9 | |
| Harrison | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hillside | 12.6 miles | 9 | |
| Greenwood Colony | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| New Holland | 15.8 miles | 9 |
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 Armour | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2235927 | 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 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.




