BlockButler, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Butler town. It lies in ZIP code area 57219. The Survey maps it on the Bristol East quadrangle. 4 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,827 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresButler fell from 17 to 4 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 | 17 | |
| 2020 | 4 | -13 (-76%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bristol East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Butler in 2017, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 March 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HARMS |
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butler in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 9 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Hail | Butler | - | A satellite depicted hail swath from a severe thunderstorm that started in Edmunds County across southern Brown County entered Day County continuing its crop damage. The storm weakened as it moved into Roberts County. The scar dimensions covered approximately 60 square miles in Day County. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Butler | - | Windshields were broken and tree damage occurred from two inch hail. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Butler | - | Quarter size hail caused moderate stripping of corn leaves. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Butler | - | Dime to nickel size hail combined with wind gusts to 60 mph destroyed 900 acres of oats, wheat, and corn south of Butler. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Butler | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Butler | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Butler | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Butler | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Butler | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Butler | - | 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 Butler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2624240 | 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 1254176. 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.