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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.

Bryant within Hamlin County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Bryant 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.

YearPeople Change
2010456
2020471+15 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

4 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWISEMAN
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWISEMAN2
25 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH
27 April 2001Debris and open burning75 acresDesmet Volunteer Fire Department# 691

Every fire recorded in Hamlin County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1995HailBryant$30,000Hail 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 2024Thunderstorm WindBryant-The public reported that a tree branch had come down due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2024Flash FloodBryant-Sheriff reports flooding south of the intersection of 443rd ave and 191st street.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindBryant-Tree damage was reported in Bryant by estimated 65 mph winds.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindBryant-A large, sturdy ash tree with estimated one foot diameter trunk was knocked over.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBryant-Sixty mph winds were estimated north of Bryant.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Bryant-A tornado touched down briefly south of Bryant causing no damage.
June 1997Tornado (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 2021Thunderstorm WindBryant-no account filed
May 2004HailBryant-no account filed
June 2003HailBryant-no account filed
August 2002HailBryant-no account filed
June 2001HailBryant-no account filed
June 2001HailBryant-no account filed
July 2001HailBryant-no account filed
July 2000HailBryant-no account filed
July 1999HailBryant-no account filed
September 1999HailBryant-no account filed
May 1998HailBryant-no account filed
July 1998HailBryant-no account filed
June 1997HailBryant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamlin 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
Hazel12.6 miles8
Lake Norden13.7 miles8
Hayti14.6 miles8
Alsville18.0 miles8
Thomas18.0 miles8
Kones Corner21.4 miles8
Stone Bridge21.6 miles8
Castlewood24.9 miles8

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 BryantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3239717The 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.