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Artas, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Artas town. It lies in ZIP code area 57437. The Survey maps it on the Zeeland quadrangle. 7 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,821 feet above sea level.

Artas within Campbell County

Population over time

2 figures

Artas fell from 9 to 7 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
20109
20207-2 (-22%)

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

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Artas between 2000 and 2015, burning about 108 acres in total. 2 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 use5
Debris and open burning4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 August 2000Natural4.0 acresEureka Volunteer Fire DepartmentWAYNE LUTZ
2 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
15 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 July 2015Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDEAN SCHUMACHER
25 July 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
10 July 2008Natural5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 May 2002Debris and open burning10 acresEureka Volunteer Fire DepartmentVICTOR FEIST

Every fire recorded in Campbell County

Storms near this place

41 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Artas in 41 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 24 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2022Thunderstorm WindArtas-Shingle damage to the house, tin roof blown off machine shed. Residents slept through the storm.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindArtas-Severe winds resulted in lots of tree branch damage. Small hail was observed as well.
June 2022HailArtas-Dime to nickel sized hail was reported, with very little wind.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindArtas-Estimated 80 mph wind gusts completely destroyed a pole barn, uprooted trees, and spread debris a quarter to half mile to the northeast.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindArtas-Estimated 80 mph winds completely destroyed a barn, took the roof off a shed along with the metal top off a silo and removed several cinder blocks. A board was also tossed through the roof of a garage.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindArtas-Estimated 80 mph winds caused significant damage to a machine shed, including a partial loss of the roof and walls.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindArtas-Sixty mph winds along with hail damaged crops and the garden.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindArtas-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindArtas-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Artas-A landspout tornado touched down in an open field 8 miles northeast of Herreid. The tornado was on the ground for nearly 5 minutes.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindArtas-An estimated seventy mph wind occurred near Artas.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindArtas-Sixty mph winds downed some large tree limbs.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindArtas-Sixty mph winds blew in a garage door.
June 2025HailArtas-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindArtas-no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindArtas-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindArtas-no account filed
July 2019HailArtas-no account filed
September 2018HailArtas-no account filed
August 2016HailArtas-no account filed
July 2015HailArtas-no account filed
June 2014HailArtas-no account filed
June 2013HailArtas-no account filed
May 2012HailArtas-no account filed
May 2012HailArtas-no account filed
July 2012HailArtas-no account filed
July 2012HailArtas-no account filed
July 2012HailArtas-no account filed
April 2010HailArtas-no account filed
April 2010HailArtas-no account filed
June 2010HailArtas-no account filed
June 2009HailArtas-no account filed
June 2009HailArtas-no account filed
August 2008HailArtas-no account filed
July 2007HailArtas-no account filed
July 2007HailArtas-no account filed
June 2006HailArtas-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindArtas-no account filed
July 2005HailArtas-no account filed
July 1996HailArtas-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindArtas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Campbell 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
Herreid14.4 miles7
Mound City17.9 miles7
Pollock25.6 miles7

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 ArtasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2053611The 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 1253695. 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.