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Astoria, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Scandinavia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57213. The Survey maps it on the Astoria quadrangle. 132 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,824 feet above sea level.

Astoria within Deuel County

Population over time

2 figures

Astoria fell from 139 to 132 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
2010139
2020132-7 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Astoria between 2011 and 2012, burning about 10 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/undetermined4

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
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEKERN
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOLSEN FIRE
5 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNKNOWN
30 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDAHL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deuel County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Astoria in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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
July 1997Tornado (F1)Astoria$20,000A tornado touched down on a farm, uprooting and snapping trees. Every tree on the property was damaged in some way. The tornadic winds drove 2 inch branches underneath the tires of a goose neck trailer with a load of culverts aboard. The wind also drove 2 inch thick tree branches through a metal 40" by 72" quonset, leaving a hole three feet long. Also, 3 walls of a machine shed were blown down, 2 pickups were damaged and metal culverts were thrown about and twisted. A wheelbarrow was pushed for 15 feet, tipping over a motorcycle. Two overhead doors were blown out and one was bashed, damaging a camper. Path length and width were estimated.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAstoria-Trees were downed and several houses were damaged by spotter-estimated 80 mph wind gusts.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAstoria-Estimated eighty mph winds knocked down several trees along with downing many tree branches.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAstoria-Estimated eighty mph winds downed numerous trees.
June 2017HailAstoria-Golf ball sized hail destroyed crops and damaged homes in and around Astoria.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAstoria-Sixty mph winds were estimated by law enforcement.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAstoria-Large limbs were brought down by the high winds.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAstoria-In Astoria, high winds blew down many trees and branches and destroyed the fertilizer building by the elevator.
May 2005HailAstoria-no account filed
July 2004HailAstoria-no account filed
July 2004HailAstoria-no account filed
August 2004HailAstoria-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAstoria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deuel 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
Toronto5.2 miles8
Brandt8.3 miles8
Johnsonville12.7 miles9
Clear Lake14.8 miles8
Gary16.9 miles9
Moritz19.0 miles8
Altamont20.8 miles8
Tunerville24.0 miles8

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 AstoriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2136609The 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 1253718. 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.