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.
Population over time
2 figuresArtas 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | |
| 2020 | 7 | -2 (-22%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Zeeland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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 use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 5 August 2000 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Eureka Volunteer Fire Department | WAYNE LUTZ |
| 2 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 July 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DEAN SCHUMACHER |
| 25 July 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 July 2008 | Natural | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 21 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Eureka Volunteer Fire Department | VICTOR FEIST |
Storms near this place
41 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Shingle damage to the house, tin roof blown off machine shed. Residents slept through the storm. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Severe winds resulted in lots of tree branch damage. Small hail was observed as well. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Artas | - | Dime to nickel sized hail was reported, with very little wind. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Estimated 80 mph wind gusts completely destroyed a pole barn, uprooted trees, and spread debris a quarter to half mile to the northeast. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Estimated 80 mph winds caused significant damage to a machine shed, including a partial loss of the roof and walls. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Sixty mph winds along with hail damaged crops and the garden. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| May 2016 | Tornado (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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | An estimated seventy mph wind occurred near Artas. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Sixty mph winds downed some large tree limbs. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | Sixty mph winds blew in a garage door. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Artas | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Artas | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herreid | 14.4 miles | 7 | |
| Mound City | 17.9 miles | 7 | |
| Pollock | 25.6 miles | 7 |
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 Artas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2053611 | 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 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.



