Bryant, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57221. The Survey maps it on the Bryant quadrangle. 471 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,850 feet above sea level.
On record in Bryant
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
- Bryant Masonic Lodge 118listed 2020
- Garfield Lutheran Church and Cemeterylisted 2012
- Kant Hotellisted 1985
- Old St. Mary's Catholic Parish Houselisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresBryant grew from 456 to 471 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 | 456 | |
| 2020 | 471 | +15 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Bryant quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bryant between 2001 and 2020, burning about 85 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WISEMAN |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WISEMAN2 |
| 25 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITCH |
| 27 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Desmet Volunteer Fire Department | # 691 |
Storms near this place
21 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryant in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1995 | Hail | Bryant | $30,000 | Hail caused considerable damage to crops, mainly corn and soybeans. The crop loss was estimated to be 50 percent over three townships. The hail caused relatively minor property damage. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryant | - | The public reported that a tree branch had come down due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Bryant | - | Sheriff reports flooding south of the intersection of 443rd ave and 191st street. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryant | - | Tree damage was reported in Bryant by estimated 65 mph winds. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryant | - | A large, sturdy ash tree with estimated one foot diameter trunk was knocked over. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryant | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated north of Bryant. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Bryant | - | A tornado touched down briefly south of Bryant causing no damage. |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Bryant | - | A tornado touched down near Bryant and moved some grain bins about 3/4 of a mile and uprooted several trees in a shelter belt. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Bryant | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Bryant | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazel | 12.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lake Norden | 13.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hayti | 14.6 miles | 8 | |
| Alsville | 18.0 miles | 8 | |
| Thomas | 18.0 miles | 8 | |
| Kones Corner | 21.4 miles | 8 | |
| Stone Bridge | 21.6 miles | 8 | |
| Castlewood | 24.9 miles | 8 |
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 Bryant | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3239717 | 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 1254101. 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.



