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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Carpenter quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
32 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | The Clark County Emergency Manager reported that thunderstorm winds had damaged a cattle pod and grain bin. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Carpenter | - | 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Carpenter | - | Six inches of rain resulted in water flowing over the road along with a pasture full of water. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Carpenter | - | A tornado touched down for a few minutes with no damage reported. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Carpenter | - | A tornado touched down with no damage reported. The public reported over eighty mph inflow winds with some tree damage occurring. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | Estimated wind gusts up to 75 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated north of Clark. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | Sixty mph winds ripped the door off of a shed and tossed a trampoline into the trees. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | Winds to 70 mph blew apart a machine shed, destroyed several grain bins, and blew a silo over. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Carpenter | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Carpenter | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitrodie (historical) | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Carlton (historical) | 7.6 miles | 8 | |
| Keefton (historical) | 7.8 miles | 8 | |
| Fordham Colony | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Merton (historical) | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Collins Colony | 13.1 miles | 8 | |
| Melham | 13.4 miles | 8 | |
| Willow Lake | 14.8 miles | 8 |
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 Carpenter | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5045689 | 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 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.



