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Bath, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bath Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57427. The Survey maps it on the Bath quadrangle. 142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.

Bath within Brown County

Population over time

2 figures

Bath fell from 172 to 142 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
2010172
2020142-30 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

19 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Bath between 2000 and 2020, burning about 4,303 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSHARP FIRE
5 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRIVER BOTTOM 2
4 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKEVIN RORHBACH
4 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
15 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMIKE
15 May 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNATURAL GOLD
14 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMIDSTATES
13 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresBrown CountyHULL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bath in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 wildfire. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindBath-Seventy mph winds split a tree in half at the trunk along with downing many large tree branches and damaging shingles on the roof.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBath-Several two-foot diameter trees were blown down east of Bath by seventy mph winds.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBath-Sixty mph winds were estimated in Bath.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Bath-A weak tornado touched down briefly just southeast of Bath, causing no damage.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Bath-The same storm that produced the F0 tornado for 5 minutes southeast of Bath produced a second tornado 7 miles north of Bath about 10 minutes later. This tornado was also weak and produced no damage.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBath-Seventy mph winds caused some damage in and around Bath. The winds damaged the roofs of a few homes and outbuildings. The skirting was ripped off a mobile home and a few utility poles were leaning. Several trees and branches were also downed.
April 2003WildfireBath-Dry vegetation along with windy conditions caused a grassland burn northeast of Bath near the James River to get out of control during the early afternoon hours. Strong north to northeast winds of 20 to 35 mph caused the fire to spread quickly south along the James River. The fire became one and a half miles wide and burned six miles to the south before it was brought under control. A total of four thousand acres was burned. The smoke from the fire could be seen from miles around and lowered visibilities enough to close State Highway 12 two different times. One time, traffic had to be diverted on Highway 12 for six hours due to the low visibility in smoke. Also, the Burlington Northern/Sante Fe Railroad was delayed in Bristol and Andover on April 3rd because of the smoke. Twenty-one fire departments with around 250 people worked to bring the fire under control.
May 2022Funnel CloudBath-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBath-no account filed
September 2020FloodBath-no account filed
June 2017HailBath-no account filed
July 2017HailBath-no account filed
July 2017HailBath-no account filed
June 2015HailBath-no account filed
September 2013HailBath-no account filed
June 2012HailBath-no account filed
August 2012HailBath-no account filed
July 2010HailBath-no account filed
May 2010HailBath-no account filed
May 2005HailBath-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBath-no account filed
June 1998HailBath-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
Bath Corner0.7 miles11
Plana3.6 miles10
Jobee Acres4.0 miles11
James5.9 miles11
Prairiewood Village6.0 miles10
Prairie Wood Village Addition6.2 miles10
Tacoma Park6.6 miles9
Nahon7.2 miles11

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 BathAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4256956The 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 1253783. 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.