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Canova, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Canova town. It lies in ZIP code area 57321. The Survey maps it on the Canova West quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,522 feet above sea level.

Canova within Miner County

Population over time

2 figures

Canova fell from 105 to 89 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
2010105
202089-16 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Canova between 2000 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
26 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMadison Wetland Management DistrictPEARSON
31 October 2020Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRABENHORST

Every fire recorded in Miner County

Storms near this place

32 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canova in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 1 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
May 2007Thunderstorm WindCanova$5,000Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a house.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCanova$1,000Several tree limbs up to 6 to 8 inches in diameter were reported down across Canova. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
August 2025HailCanova-Hail caused significant damage to vehicles.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCanova-Two to four inch limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds near downtown Canova. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCanova-A large grain bin was destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2015Tornado (EF0)Canova-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2011HailCanova-Large hail damaged siding and shingles, cracked windows, and dented vehicles. The hail also caused crop damage. The amount of property and crop damage was not known.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCanova-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few large branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by hail of unknown size with no hail damage noticed.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindCanova-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
September 2005HailCanova-Large hail broke windows and damaged crops. The amount of property and crop damage was not known.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCanova-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCanova-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and blew down at least one power pole.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCanova-Thunderstorm winds caused damage to trees and power lines. The amount of damage was not known.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCanova-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including blowing over a large tree which blocked a road.
August 2000HailCanova-Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of damage was not determined.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed
June 2007HailCanova-no account filed
September 2005HailCanova-no account filed
May 2004HailCanova-no account filed
May 2004HailCanova-no account filed
July 2004HailCanova-no account filed
July 2004HailCanova-no account filed
July 2004HailCanova-no account filed
July 2004HailCanova-no account filed
July 2004HailCanova-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCanova-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miner 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
Shannon Colony8.1 miles6
Howard9.0 miles11
Vilas10.2 miles11
Roswell13.4 miles12
Argonne15.0 miles12
Fedora17.6 miles11
Cloverleaf Colony20.9 miles11
Carthage22.9 miles11

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 CanovaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2041681The 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 1265623. 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.