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.
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 figuresCavour 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 114 | |
| 2020 | 128 | +14 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1898 USGS Huron quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Cavour quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Huron quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | VERN KAHRE |
| 2 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Huron Volunteer Fire Dept. | KLEINSASSER |
| 19 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MEIERS |
| 26 March 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 400 acres | Bristol Volunteer Fire Department | BNSF |
| 20 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Yankton Volunteer Fire Department | UTICA GRAVEL PIT |
| 6 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Huron Volunteer Fire Dept. | RANDY OHM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
47 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Tornado (F3) | Cavour | $1,500,000 | A 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 8 inch diameter limbs broken off. Power lines were knocked down by tree debris. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged farm buildings. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Thunderstorm winds heavily damaged a south side barn door and roof. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts peaked at 64 mph at 230 am CST at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Cavour. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 66 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD515 3 miles east of Cavour. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | A large tree fell on and crushed a passenger vehicle. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Thunderstorm wind gust was measured by South Dakota RWIS near Cavour. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | South Dakota RWIS station SD515, three miles east of Cavour, measured a peak wind gust of 75 mph. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Downed power lines. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Flag pole downed and shingles blown off barn roof. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Quite a few trees downed with the town. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Cavour | - | Hail to tennis ball size. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Cavour | - | Quarter size hail was accompanied by heavy rain. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Cavour | - | Hail size varied from marble to ping pong ball. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | Thunderstorm winds and accompanying small hail damaged crops. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Cavour | - | 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 2007 | Hail | Cavour | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Cavour | - | Large hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 50 mph. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Cavour | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Cavour | - | Large hail caused crop damage. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Cavour | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Cavour | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Yale | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Pearl Creek Colony | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Morningside | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Huron | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Riverside Colony | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| James Valley Junction | 13.7 miles | 9 | |
| Huron Colony | 16.1 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 Cavour | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2798320 | 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 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.




