Barnard, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oneota Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57426. The Survey maps it on the Westport quadrangle. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.
On record in Barnard
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 1 record
Brown Halllisted 1990
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1894 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:62500
- 1896 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Westport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Barnard between 2014 and 2020, burning about 31 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 | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2020 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BALES |
| 8 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FLEMMER |
| 17 May 2018 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EDWARDS |
| 6 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 15FFD11 |
| 6 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WAYNES FIRE |
| 11 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KEITH NELSON |
| 13 November 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ACHEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
37 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnard in 37 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Seventy mph winds combined with pea to dime sized hail to cause extensive crop damage. A couple of trees were downed as well. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Estimated seventy mph winds took off a section of a barn roof. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Estimated eighty mph winds tore some roof panels off an old barn. Two calf sheds were also pushed northeast when their support poles that they were chained to, snapped. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Several trees were downed in Barnard by seventy-five mph winds. Some fences were also damaged. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Barnard | - | Golf ball hail caused some damage to crops. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Barnard | - | Quarter size hail along with strong winds caused some minor damage to the siding on a house and stripped leaves off crops. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Seventy mph winds took the roof off of a shed and tipped an auger over. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Barnard | - | A tornado entered into western Brown county from southeast Mcpherson county. The tornado was an EF2 before entering Brown county. The tornado slowly dissipated shortly after entering the county with some tree damage observed. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | Damaging winds downed two very large trees which had fallen across a road. A farmer had the doors ripped off his barn with a horse trailer being moved 150 feet. Another farmer had major damage to several outbuildings. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Barnard | - | Softball size hail fell just south of Barnard damaging a law officer's vehicle. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Flood | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F3) | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F4) | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Barnard | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Barnard | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westport | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Frederick | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| Ordway | 11.5 miles | 10 | |
| Columbia | 12.8 miles | 10 | |
| Winship | 13.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bieglers First Addition | 14.0 miles | 8 | |
| Richmond Lake Heights Development | 14.1 miles | 8 | |
| Fisher Estates | 14.7 miles | 8 |
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 Barnard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4861411 | 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 1253773. 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.





