Chancellor, South Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Germantown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57015. The Survey maps it on the Lennox quadrangle. 300 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChancellor grew from 264 to 300 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 | 264 | |
| 2020 | 300 | +36 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1897 USGS Canton quadrangle1:125000
- 1900 USGS Canton quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Lennox quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Rock Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Chancellor between 1999 and 2020, burning about 142 acres in total. 1 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 | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Parker Volunteer Fire Department | FREEZE |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SSBALE |
| 16 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GIRLY DITCH FIRE |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HIGWAY GRASS FIRE |
| 1 June 2002 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Chancellor Volunteer Fire Department | KRUMMINGA |
| 5 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 21 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | POPPINGA BURN |
| 8 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SPOTS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Chancellor: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neeman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
27 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chancellor in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 17 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | $75,000 | A swath of wind damage began around 1 mile northwest of Chancellor where large tree limbs were broken. One mile north of Chancellor, the strongest winds along the swath caused extensive damage to a farmstead, destroying an outbuilding and a grain bin. On the same property, an anchored playset and trees were damaged by straight line winds. A few hundred yards east, metal roof panels were removed by the wind from a farm outbuilding. There was no evidence along the damage path of a tornado due to a lack of convergence. The damage path continued into Lincoln county. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down and uprooted large trees, blew the roof off a barn, and blew a hog building into a ravine. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | $25,000 | Several power poles snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts. Property damage costs are a rough estimate. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Chancellor | - | Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Chancellor | - | Hail up to nickel size fell 2 to 3 miles east of Chancellor along South Dakota Highway 44. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Chancellor | - | Based on Sentinel satellite imagery, a tornado spun up in Turner County southwest of the intersection of 279th Street and 464th Avenue. The tornado traveled east-northeast for around one-half mile through open farmland before it crossed into Lincoln County. While in Turner County, the tornado was rated EFU, but in Lincoln County it was rated EF1. The average path width in Turner County was 30 yards. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | - | A personal weather station measured an 80 mph wind gust. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | - | Branches downed. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 to 3 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | - | Thunderstorm winds continued for 20 minutes with frequent gusts to 60 mph. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| March 2004 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Chancellor | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chancellor | - | 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.
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 Chancellor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2928325 | 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 1254320. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.





