Carthage, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Carthage City. It lies in ZIP code area 57323. The Survey maps it on the Carthage quadrangle. 127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,434 feet above sea level.
On record in Carthage
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
- Coughlin Houselisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresCarthage fell from 144 to 127 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 | 144 | |
| 2020 | 127 | -17 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Carthage quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carthage in 2011, 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | COMBINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
46 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carthage in 46 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 27 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Carthage | $100,000 | Flooding of lakes and lowlands, including some farmland, continued in the county through April. While flooding of small streams abated, lake and lowland flooding continued with very slow improvement. Several roads remained flooded. High water and groundwater levels resulting from record precipitation in the previous year was the main reason that the flooding either grew worse or improved so slowly. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | $80,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees, limbs, and branches. One large limb fell onto a power line, causing a fire which destroyed a building housing a post office, food pantry, and apartment. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Carthage | $70,000 | Hail to golf ball size caused heavy damage to vehicles, roofs, siding, and windows. The hail was accompanied by 40 mph winds. The hail caused local crop damage, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | $20,000 | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Carthage | $10,000 | A tornado destroyed two farm buildings, including a hog barn. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew off part of a roof. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power poles. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Carthage | $2,000 | A brief tornado damaged outbuildings. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Carthage | $1,000 | A brief tornado damaged a pole barn. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Carthage | $1,000 | A brief tornado destroyed several outbuildings. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | - | Quite a bit of tree damage, as well as minor damage to homes. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Carthage | - | Melting of a heavy winter snow cover caused flooding of lowlands, lakes, and small streams, including considerable flooding of farmland. Several roads in the county were flooded. Some of the roads were closed, and some were washed out in spots. The flooding onset was rapid for a snow melt flood due to high water and groundwater levels from record precipitation in the year 2010. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The winds were accompanied by heavy rain. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Carthage | - | A brief rain wrapped tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | - | Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | - | Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of crop damage. The winds also caused tree damage, including several branches broken off. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Carthage | - | Large hail caused damage to crops. The amount of damage was not known but the damage was not severe according to the county agriculture agent. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Carthage | - | A brief tornado caused no damage, according to the spotter who viewed it. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Carthage | - | no account filed |
| April 1993 | Hail | Carthage | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argonne | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Cloverleaf Colony | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Roswell | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Fedora | 11.9 miles | 11 | |
| Vilas | 12.8 miles | 11 | |
| Howard | 14.9 miles | 11 | |
| Shannon Colony | 20.3 miles | 6 | |
| Canova | 22.9 miles | 11 |
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 Carthage | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2074682 | 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 1267022. 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.




