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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.

Chancellor within Turner County

Population over time

2 figures

Chancellor 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.

YearPeople Change
2010264
2020300+36 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

32 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
17 August 1999Debris and open burning10 acresParker Volunteer Fire DepartmentFREEZE
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSSBALE
16 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGIRLY DITCH FIRE
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHIGWAY GRASS FIRE
1 June 2002Natural7.0 acresChancellor Volunteer Fire DepartmentKRUMMINGA
5 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPOPPINGA BURN
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPOTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Neeman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Thunderstorm WindChancellor$75,000A 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 2000Thunderstorm WindChancellor$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down and uprooted large trees, blew the roof off a barn, and blew a hog building into a ravine.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindChancellor$25,000Several power poles snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
July 2022HailChancellor-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
April 2022HailChancellor-Hail up to nickel size fell 2 to 3 miles east of Chancellor along South Dakota Highway 44.
August 2021Tornado (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 2020Thunderstorm WindChancellor-A personal weather station measured an 80 mph wind gust.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindChancellor-Branches downed.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindChancellor-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 2 to 3 inch diameter branches blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindChancellor-Thunderstorm winds continued for 20 minutes with frequent gusts to 60 mph.
July 2022HailChancellor-no account filed
June 2017HailChancellor-no account filed
April 2015HailChancellor-no account filed
September 2010HailChancellor-no account filed
June 2008HailChancellor-no account filed
July 2006HailChancellor-no account filed
August 2006HailChancellor-no account filed
March 2004HailChancellor-no account filed
March 2004HailChancellor-no account filed
May 2004HailChancellor-no account filed
May 2004HailChancellor-no account filed
May 2004HailChancellor-no account filed
July 2004HailChancellor-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindChancellor-no account filed
August 2000HailChancellor-no account filed
July 1997HailChancellor-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindChancellor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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
Davis7.9 miles10
Parker8.1 miles11
Hurley8.2 miles11
Hooker12.0 miles11
Monroe14.4 miles11
Viborg14.8 miles11
Marion14.9 miles11
Centerville17.5 miles10

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 ChancellorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2928325The 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.