Brentford, South Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brentford town. It lies in ZIP code area 57429. The Survey maps it on the Brentford quadrangle. 88 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrentford grew from 77 to 88 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 | 77 | |
| 2020 | 88 | +11 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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
- 1953 USGS Brentford quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Brentford between 1999 and 2014, burning about 615 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | BOB MEYER |
| 24 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 19 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Mellette Volunteer Fire Department | COLLINS FARM |
| 4 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SCHANAMAN |
| 4 July 2014 | Natural | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HCFD9440 |
| 19 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 May 2000 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Brentford Volunteer Fire Department | OVERBY |
| 4 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brentford in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 flood, 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2022 | Flood | Brentford | 1 killed | On Friday, July 22nd, a 13-year-old girl was swept downstream while swimming in the James River near Frankfort. The search was postponed around 11:30 p.m. Friday due to the dangers of the current and the inability to see in the dark. The girl's body was found around 9:25 a.m. on Saturday. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Brentford | - | The James River near Ashton peaked well above major flood stage at 19.91 feet on April 21st, which overtopped one of the bridges and impacted another near the gauge site. |
| May 2023 | Flood | Brentford | - | The James River near Ashton was initially in decline at the start of the month which lasted through May 4th, though a second crest was observed on May 17th at 16.71 feet, followed again by a steady decline that lasted through the end of May. With this May crest, the main impact is to agricultural lands, however a bridge near the gauge site has been under water for most of the month. |
| June 2023 | Flood | Brentford | - | The James River near Ashton, ATNS2, started the month in moderate flood stage at 15.42 feet, then steadily dropped through the month. It reached minor flood stage of <14 feet on June 12th, and then remained there through the rest of the month. Significant amounts of farm land were flooded, including crop and pasture land. |
| July 2023 | Flood | Brentford | - | The James River near Ashton, ATNS2, started the month in minor flood stage at 13.1 feet before falling below flood stage at 5:45 AM on July 2nd. The flooding affected some cropland and pastures in low-lying areas. |
| June 2022 | Flood | Brentford | - | The James River near Ashton began the month in major flood stage, and crested at 17.51 feet at 10:30am on June 9th. It dropped into moderate flood stage during the early morning hours of June 21st, and remained there through the rest of the month. |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Brentford | - | The tornado briefly touched down in an open field, rolling 12 large hay bales, some of them over a fence. The tornado also was visibile as a tornadic debris signature on radar due to the lofting of corn stubble into the air. The track of the tornado was also visible on high resolution satellite data several days after the event. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | Sixty mph winds downed some large tree limbs. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | A power pole was snapped by estimated seventy mph winds. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Brentford | - | Very heavy rains of 2 to 3 inches resulted in water over topping several secondary roads along with a few creeks coming out of their banks. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of seventy mph caused tree branches in Brentford to come down. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Brentford | - | Heavy rains of 3 to over 5 inches caused flash flooding of several roads and crops in north central and northeast Spink county. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | High winds downed several trees and power poles in Brentford. Also, a roof was damaged from a large tree falling onto it. |
| August 2023 | Flood | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Flood | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Flood | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Brentford | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brentford | - | 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.
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 Brentford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2121607 | 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 1254056. 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.




