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Cavour, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cavour town. It lies in ZIP code area 57324. The Survey maps it on the Cavour quadrangle. 128 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Cavour within Beadle County

On record in Cavour

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cavour grew from 114 to 128 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
2010114
2020128+14 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cavour between 1999 and 2014, burning about 444 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionVERN KAHRE
2 May 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresHuron Volunteer Fire Dept.KLEINSASSER
19 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMEIERS
26 March 1999Railroad operations and maintenance400 acresBristol Volunteer Fire DepartmentBNSF
20 March 1999Debris and open burning40 acresYankton Volunteer Fire DepartmentUTICA GRAVEL PIT
6 November 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreHuron Volunteer Fire Dept.RANDY OHM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beadle County

Storms near this place

47 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cavour in 47 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 22 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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
June 2003Tornado (F3)Cavour$1,500,000A tornado destroyed farm buildings and numerous trees, resulting in F3 damage southwest of Cavour. Homes and businesses within the town of Cavour were severely damaged (F2). Winds of 120 mph were measured by an anemometer on top of a grain elevator in Cavour.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCavour$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 8 inch diameter limbs broken off. Power lines were knocked down by tree debris.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCavour$20,000Thunderstorm winds damaged farm buildings.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindCavour-Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a south side barn door and roof.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCavour-Thunderstorm wind gusts peaked at 64 mph at 230 am CST at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Cavour.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCavour-Multiple trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCavour-A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD515 3 miles east of Cavour.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCavour-A thunderstorm wind gust of 66 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD515 3 miles east of Cavour.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCavour-A brief period of thunderstorm wind gusts of 58 mph or greater was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD515 3 miles east of Cavour. A peak wind gust of 65 mph occurred at 1342CST.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCavour-A large tree fell on and crushed a passenger vehicle.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCavour-Thunderstorm wind gust was measured by South Dakota RWIS near Cavour.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCavour-South Dakota RWIS station SD515, three miles east of Cavour, measured a peak wind gust of 75 mph.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCavour-Downed power lines.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCavour-Flag pole downed and shingles blown off barn roof.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCavour-Quite a few trees downed with the town.
July 2017HailCavour-Hail to tennis ball size.
September 2016HailCavour-Quarter size hail was accompanied by heavy rain.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCavour-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2010HailCavour-Hail size varied from marble to ping pong ball.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCavour-Thunderstorm winds and accompanying small hail damaged crops. The amount of crop damage was not known.
May 2007Flash FloodCavour-Heavy rainfall of over 5 inches caused flash flooding of roads, basements, and other low areas. Road erosion was observed just north of Cavour. The amount of damage was not known.
April 2007HailCavour-Large hail covered the ground.
July 2005HailCavour-Large hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 50 mph.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Cavour-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2000HailCavour-Large hail caused crop damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCavour-no account filed
June 2014Funnel CloudCavour-no account filed
June 2013Funnel CloudCavour-no account filed
May 2012HailCavour-no account filed
August 2012HailCavour-no account filed
August 2012HailCavour-no account filed
June 2010HailCavour-no account filed
June 2010HailCavour-no account filed
July 2010HailCavour-no account filed
July 2009HailCavour-no account filed
April 2007HailCavour-no account filed
September 2006HailCavour-no account filed
August 2006HailCavour-no account filed
September 2005HailCavour-no account filed
September 2005HailCavour-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindCavour-no account filed
July 2004HailCavour-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCavour-no account filed
August 2000HailCavour-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCavour-no account filed
August 1999HailCavour-no account filed
June 1999HailCavour-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beadle 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
Sheffield3.5 miles9
Yale5.1 miles11
Pearl Creek Colony7.2 miles11
Morningside8.0 miles10
Huron9.4 miles10
Riverside Colony9.7 miles10
James Valley Junction13.7 miles9
Huron Colony16.1 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 CavourAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2798320The 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 1254274. 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.