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Canistota, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Canistota City. It lies in ZIP code area 57012. The Survey maps it on the Canistota quadrangle. 631 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,552 feet above sea level.

Canistota within McCook County

On record in Canistota

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Canistota fell from 656 to 631 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
2010656
2020631-25 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Canistota between 1999 and 2012, burning about 12 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI90 #2
1 March 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresAgar Volunteer Fire DepartmentSHOUP FARM
14 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 November 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionD. WHITE

Every fire recorded in McCook County

Storms near this place

56 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canistota in 56 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 31 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 tornado. 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
April 2005Thunderstorm WindCanistota$250,000Thunderstorm winds damaged numerous homes and other structures, as well as trees and power lines. Roofs were blown off a seed company building, a lumber yard building, and a large machine shed. Additional damage was done to these buildings and others. Shingles were blown off several roofs. The grandstand and one dugout at a ball park was destroyed, and the other dugout, the lights, and the outfield fence were damaged. Debris from the ball park was blown into a yard a block and a half away. Several vehicles were damaged, including windows blown out or knocked out by debris.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCanistota$100,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed several farm buildings, moved a large barn from its foundation, broke windows, and tore off siding from a house. The winds also caused tree damage, including large trees uprooted.
June 1999HailCanistota$100,000Large hail broke many windows and dented vehicles. The hail also caused crop damage, but the amount of damage was not determined.
May 1998Tornado (F1)Canistota$100,000no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCanistota$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew a fertilizer wagon into a car, blew over a propane tank, and caused tree damage.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCanistota$30,000Thunderstorm winds rolled and destroyed a camper.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCanistota$25,000Lids were ripped off grain bins, with large tree branches down. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
September 2019FloodCanistota$25,000After excessive two-day rainfall in the headwaters of the Vermillion River (6.78 inches 2 miles east of Montrose, 5.63 inches at Montrose), the East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached the highest crest on record of 5.09 feet above flood stage on September 13. Numerous county roads and bridges from the gaging site upstream were inundated.
July 2011HailCanistota$25,000Large hail stripped leaves off trees, dented vehicles, and caused an unknown amount of crop damage.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCanistota$10,000Metal roof panels were ripped off a small apartment building.
September 2019Flash FloodCanistota$10,000Water up to 2 feet in depth flooded many roads in Canistota.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
March 2023HailCanistota-Hail varied from dime to nickel size.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCanistota-A 1480-foot TV broadcast tower built in 1976 was downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Several large branches were downed by thunderstorm winds in Canistota.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCanistota-A single family home lost sections of its roof.
August 2021HailCanistota-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2019FloodCanistota-The East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached a crest of 0.18 feet above flood stage on May 29. Impacts were mainly agricultural, causing further delays to spring planting and preparations throughout the flood plain.
March 2019FloodCanistota-Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 3.13 inches at Bridgewater and 2.75 inches at Montrose) resulted in extensive flooding of agricultural lands and inundation of numerous county and township roads (including bridges on 455th and 456th Avenue east of Parker). The East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached the highest stage on record cresting 4.09 feet above flood stage on March 14.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Heavy damage to the grain elevator in Canistota.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including trees blown down.
June 2014Heavy RainCanistota-Rainfall of 4.50 inches was measured since midnight.
June 2010HailCanistota-Large hail was accompanied by 25 mph winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Thunderstorm winds blew down small branches.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, including 3 inch diameter branches blown down. A resulting power outage lasted about 2 hours.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCanistota-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Canistota-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 1997HailCanistota-Hail caused an undetermined amount of crop damage.
July 2025HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2024HailCanistota-no account filed
July 2024HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2024HailCanistota-no account filed
August 2021HailCanistota-no account filed
July 2019HailCanistota-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCanistota-no account filed
August 2015HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2014HailCanistota-no account filed
July 2008HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2007HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2007HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2007HailCanistota-no account filed
July 2007HailCanistota-no account filed
July 2006HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2005HailCanistota-no account filed
April 2004HailCanistota-no account filed
May 2004HailCanistota-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCanistota-no account filed
May 2002HailCanistota-no account filed
May 2002HailCanistota-no account filed
April 2002HailCanistota-no account filed
April 2002HailCanistota-no account filed
April 2002HailCanistota-no account filed
April 2002HailCanistota-no account filed
August 2001HailCanistota-no account filed
July 1997HailCanistota-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCook 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
Rumpus Ridge5.5 miles6
Stanley Corner6.4 miles6
Montrose9.0 miles6
Salem10.2 miles6
Golden View Colony10.3 miles6
Bridgewater11.9 miles11
Orland Colony16.1 miles6
Unityville16.5 miles6

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 CanistotaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3240441The 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 1254224. 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.