Broadland, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Broadland town. It lies in ZIP code area 57350. The Survey maps it on the Broadland quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBroadland fell from 31 to 27 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 | 31 | |
| 2020 | 27 | -4 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1898 USGS Huron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Broadland quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Huron quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Broadland between 1999 and 2017, burning about 47 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HILES WHEAT |
| 4 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Huron Volunteer Fire Dept. | HEMENWAY |
| 23 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MOEDING GRASS |
| 18 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Huron Wetland Management District | BULL FIRE 08 |
| 8 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HILES FIRE |
| 21 March 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | Huron Wetland Management District | RAIL ROAD |
| 2 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Huron Volunteer Fire Dept. | STATE STREET |
| 19 March 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Hitchcock Volunteer Fire Department | BAUMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broadland in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 6 hail, 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Flood | Broadland | $500,000 | Heavy rainfall caused flooding of low areas including fields, homes, businesses, schools, roads, streams, and bridges. The flooding was a longer term event than flash flooding, which had also resulted. Long term major flooding of the James River also resulted, with the river peaking at 6.7 feet above flood stage at Huron on May 7th. Numerous parks and other recreation areas were affected, especially in the Huron area. Some roads and bridges were washed out by the high water. The flooding delayed planting of crops in some areas. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Broadland | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged a grain bin. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Broadland | - | Long term minor to moderate flooding of the James River continued at the start of June. Additional moderate to heavy rainfall over the basin kept the river above flood stage until June 28th when it fell below flood stage at Huron. The flooding was not nearly as great as during the previous month. A crest of 2.9 feet above flood stage was recorded on the river at Huron on June 17th. While lowland flooding continued along the river, no additional damage was reported. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Broadland | - | Hail severely damaged crops, but the amount of damage was undetermined. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Broadland | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Broadland | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Broadland | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Broadland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Broadland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Valley Junction | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Wolsey | 8.9 miles | 9 | |
| Huron Colony | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hitchcock | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bonilla | 10.1 miles | 10 | |
| Riverside Colony | 11.1 miles | 10 | |
| Huron | 11.4 miles | 10 | |
| Morningside | 12.2 miles | 10 |
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 Broadland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2373631 | 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 1254068. 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.




