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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.

Carthage within Miner County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Carthage 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.

YearPeople Change
2010144
2020127-17 (-12%)

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

1 since 2011

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
5 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCOMBINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miner County

Storms near this place

46 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011FloodCarthage$100,000Flooding 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 2001Thunderstorm WindCarthage$80,000Thunderstorm 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 2010HailCarthage$70,000Hail 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 1998Thunderstorm WindCarthage$20,000no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindCarthage$20,000no account filed
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Carthage$10,000A tornado destroyed two farm buildings, including a hog barn.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCarthage$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew off part of a roof.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCarthage$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power poles.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Carthage$2,000A brief tornado damaged outbuildings.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Carthage$1,000A brief tornado damaged a pole barn.
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Carthage$1,000A brief tornado destroyed several outbuildings.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Quite a bit of tree damage, as well as minor damage to homes.
March 2011FloodCarthage-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 2011Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The winds were accompanied by heavy rain.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Carthage-A brief rain wrapped tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCarthage-Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of crop damage. The winds also caused tree damage, including several branches broken off.
June 2002HailCarthage-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 2001Tornado (F0)Carthage-A brief tornado caused no damage, according to the spotter who viewed it.
August 2019HailCarthage-no account filed
July 2017HailCarthage-no account filed
May 2009HailCarthage-no account filed
May 2009HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2009HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2009HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2008HailCarthage-no account filed
April 2007HailCarthage-no account filed
May 2007HailCarthage-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
April 2004HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2004HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindCarthage-no account filed
June 2002HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2002HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2002HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2002HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2002HailCarthage-no account filed
July 2002HailCarthage-no account filed
April 2001HailCarthage-no account filed
June 2001HailCarthage-no account filed
May 2000HailCarthage-no account filed
August 2000HailCarthage-no account filed
August 2000HailCarthage-no account filed
August 2000HailCarthage-no account filed
July 1996HailCarthage-no account filed
April 1993HailCarthage-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
Argonne7.9 miles12
Cloverleaf Colony9.5 miles11
Roswell11.4 miles12
Fedora11.9 miles11
Vilas12.8 miles11
Howard14.9 miles11
Shannon Colony20.3 miles6
Canova22.9 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 CarthageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2074682The 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.