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.
Population over time
2 figuresBath 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 172 | |
| 2020 | 142 | -30 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1895 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Bath quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
19 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SHARP FIRE |
| 5 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RIVER BOTTOM 2 |
| 4 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KEVIN RORHBACH |
| 4 July 2008 | Fireworks | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MIKE |
| 15 May 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NATURAL GOLD |
| 14 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MIDSTATES |
| 13 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Brown County | HULL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | - | 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | - | Several two-foot diameter trees were blown down east of Bath by seventy mph winds. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated in Bath. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Bath | - | A weak tornado touched down briefly just southeast of Bath, causing no damage. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | - | 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 2003 | Wildfire | Bath | - | 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 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Bath | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | - | no account filed |
| September 2020 | Flood | Bath | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Bath | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bath | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Bath | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bath Corner | 0.7 miles | 11 | |
| Plana | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Jobee Acres | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| James | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Prairiewood Village | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Prairie Wood Village Addition | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Tacoma Park | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Nahon | 7.2 miles | 11 |
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 Bath | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4256956 | 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 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.




