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Bushnell, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Bushnell town. It lies in ZIP code area 57276. The Survey maps it on the Aurora quadrangle. 71 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,690 feet above sea level.

Bushnell within Brookings County

Population over time

2 figures

Bushnell grew from 65 to 71 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
201065
202071+6 (+9%)

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

35 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Bushnell between 1999 and 2020, burning about 176 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
20 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 August 2019Smoking1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJENSEN FIRE
21 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 14 POWER POLE
15 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
31 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBROWNIE'S FIRE
2 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRANDENBURGER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brookings County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bushnell: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Brookings County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bushnell in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2018Flash FloodBushnell-Water over U.S. Highway 14. Report received through social media.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBushnell-Multiple branches and trees were downed by the strong winds.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBushnell-Grain bin and and large barn destroyed. Also power poles and several trees were downed.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBushnell-Multiple trees downed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBushnell-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 to 3 inch diameter branches blown down.
August 2001HailBushnell-Large hail damaged crops, especially soybeans. Damage to buildings and vehicles was also reported, but the amount of damage was not known.
April 2022HailBushnell-no account filed
May 2019HailBushnell-no account filed
April 2004HailBushnell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brookings 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
Roland Colony2.9 miles8
Aurora3.8 miles8
Newdale Colony6.9 miles8
White7.3 miles8
Sunnyview7.6 miles9
Norfeld Colony7.9 miles8
Brookings8.3 miles9
Sheldon Trailor Town10.1 miles9

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 BushnellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1935204The 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 1254173. 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.