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Beresford, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Beresford City. It lies in ZIP code area 57004. The Survey maps it on the Beresford quadrangle. 2,180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,499 feet above sea level.

Beresford within Union County

On record in Beresford

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Beresford between 1998 and 2018, burning about 120 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression9152011
10 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNA
28 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRapid City Fire Department98-1982
12 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWESTBERG
8 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression30634
22 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGLEN
29 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTTT
3 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression300TH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Beresford: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Christenson Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Higman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beresford in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindBeresford2 hurt, $50,000Thunderstorm Winds overturned a trailer and damaged trees.
May 1993HailBeresford$5,000,000A hailstorm pelted the Beresford area with hail up to three inches in diameter. Around 300 cars and at least 200 roofs sustained hail damage.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindBeresford$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down a construction crane and a few trees.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBeresford$5,000A mobile home was overturned with several injuries.
July 2025Flash FloodBeresford-Multiple roadways and intersections were inundated by water deep enough to impede travel.

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Emmet6.9 miles18
Alsen8.4 miles19
Alcester8.6 miles10
Hill Side9.8 miles19
Nora10.4 miles18
Big Springs13.2 miles18
Midway14.8 miles18
Spink15.8 miles19

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 BeresfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q287417The 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 1267667. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.