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Carpenter, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57322. The Survey maps it on the Carpenter quadrangle. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

Carpenter within Clark County

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.

Storms near this place

32 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carpenter in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 10 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-The Clark County Emergency Manager sent photos of wind damage which included sheet metal torn from an elevator, and a pair of doors blown off a machine shed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-The Clark County Emergency Manager reported that thunderstorm winds had damaged a cattle pod and grain bin.
July 2023HailCarpenter-Mostly quarter size hail, with a few larger stones, covered the ground with no gravel visible on roads. The hail was three inches deep in some spots.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches.
August 2014Flash FloodCarpenter-Six inches of rain resulted in water flowing over the road along with a pasture full of water.
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Carpenter-A tornado touched down for a few minutes with no damage reported.
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Carpenter-A tornado touched down with no damage reported. The public reported over eighty mph inflow winds with some tree damage occurring.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-Estimated wind gusts up to 75 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-Sixty mph winds were estimated north of Clark.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-Sixty mph winds ripped the door off of a shed and tossed a trampoline into the trees.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-Winds to 70 mph blew apart a machine shed, destroyed several grain bins, and blew a silo over.
June 2024HailCarpenter-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-no account filed
July 2020HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 2020HailCarpenter-no account filed
June 2017HailCarpenter-no account filed
June 2011HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 2009HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 2009HailCarpenter-no account filed
June 2008HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 2004HailCarpenter-no account filed
August 2004HailCarpenter-no account filed
August 2004HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 2003HailCarpenter-no account filed
August 2002HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 2000HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 1999HailCarpenter-no account filed
May 1998HailCarpenter-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-no account filed
June 1997HailCarpenter-no account filed
August 1996HailCarpenter-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Pitrodie (historical)5.8 miles8
Carlton (historical)7.6 miles8
Keefton (historical)7.8 miles8
Fordham Colony9.1 miles8
Merton (historical)9.2 miles8
Collins Colony13.1 miles8
Melham13.4 miles8
Willow Lake14.8 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 CarpenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5045689The 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 1254248. 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.

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.