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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.

Barnard within Brown County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

7 since 2014

Regional 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 use3
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
9 May 2020Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBALES
8 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFLEMMER
17 May 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEDWARDS
6 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression15FFD11
6 April 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWAYNES FIRE
11 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKEITH NELSON
13 November 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionACHEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

37 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Seventy mph winds combined with pea to dime sized hail to cause extensive crop damage. A couple of trees were downed as well.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Estimated seventy mph winds took off a section of a barn roof.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnard-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 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Several trees were downed in Barnard by seventy-five mph winds. Some fences were also damaged.
June 2012HailBarnard-Golf ball hail caused some damage to crops.
August 2012HailBarnard-Quarter size hail along with strong winds caused some minor damage to the siding on a house and stripped leaves off crops.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBarnard-Seventy mph winds took the roof off of a shed and tipped an auger over.
May 2010Tornado (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 2010Thunderstorm WindBarnard-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 2002HailBarnard-Softball size hail fell just south of Barnard damaging a law officer's vehicle.
June 2024HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2024HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2024HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
April 2020HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2020HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
June 2019HailBarnard-no account filed
April 2019FloodBarnard-no account filed
August 2018HailBarnard-no account filed
July 2017HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
July 2015HailBarnard-no account filed
July 2015HailBarnard-no account filed
July 2013HailBarnard-no account filed
July 2010HailBarnard-no account filed
July 2010HailBarnard-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudBarnard-no account filed
May 2008HailBarnard-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindBarnard-no account filed
August 2007HailBarnard-no account filed
May 2005HailBarnard-no account filed
June 2002Tornado (F1)Barnard-no account filed
June 2002Tornado (F3)Barnard-no account filed
June 2002Tornado (F4)Barnard-no account filed
June 2002Tornado (F0)Barnard-no account filed
June 2002Tornado (F0)Barnard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Westport5.8 miles11
Frederick6.9 miles10
Ordway11.5 miles10
Columbia12.8 miles10
Winship13.2 miles11
Bieglers First Addition14.0 miles8
Richmond Lake Heights Development14.1 miles8
Fisher Estates14.7 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 BarnardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4861411The 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.