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Claire City, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Claire City town. It lies in ZIP code area 57224. The Survey maps it on the Claire City quadrangle. 82 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Claire City within Roberts County

Population over time

2 figures

Claire City grew from 76 to 82 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
201076
202082+6 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Claire City between 2002 and 2003, burning about 350 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 burning2

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
22 April 2002Debris and open burning70 acresSisseton AgencySNOW BALE
12 April 2003Debris and open burning280 acresWaubay National Wildlife RefugeDANIELSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claire City in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindClaire City-Emergency management reported broken windows due to blow debris from thunderstorm winds.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindClaire City-Estimated seventy-five mph winds downed many trees along with causing some power outages in Claire City.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindClaire City-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindClaire City-Sixty mph winds broke off several large tree branches.
June 2005Flash FloodClaire City-Heavy rains of 3 to 6 inches flooded many township roads and cropland around Claire City.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindClaire City-Seventy mph winds downed many tree branches in town.
April 2019FloodClaire City-no account filed
May 2019FloodClaire City-no account filed
June 2018HailClaire City-no account filed
May 2012HailClaire City-no account filed
May 2012HailClaire City-no account filed
May 2012HailClaire City-no account filed
September 2005HailClaire City-no account filed
August 2004HailClaire City-no account filed
August 2004HailClaire City-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClaire City-no account filed
July 2002HailClaire City-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindClaire City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roberts 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
Dahlberg4.3 miles6
Hammer4.4 miles6
New Effington9.7 miles9
Long Hollow Housing12.0 miles6
Sisseton13.6 miles6
Valley View Estates14.1 miles6
Victor14.4 miles9
Rosholt19.7 miles14

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 Claire CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1094786The 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 1254369. 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.