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.
Population over time
2 figuresClaire 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 76 | |
| 2020 | 82 | +6 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Claire City quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Sisseton Agency | SNOW BALE |
| 12 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 280 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | DANIELSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claire City | - | Emergency management reported broken windows due to blow debris from thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claire City | - | Estimated seventy-five mph winds downed many trees along with causing some power outages in Claire City. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claire City | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claire City | - | Sixty mph winds broke off several large tree branches. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Claire City | - | Heavy rains of 3 to 6 inches flooded many township roads and cropland around Claire City. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claire City | - | Seventy mph winds downed many tree branches in town. |
| April 2019 | Flood | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Claire City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claire City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dahlberg | 4.3 miles | 6 | |
| Hammer | 4.4 miles | 6 | |
| New Effington | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Long Hollow Housing | 12.0 miles | 6 | |
| Sisseton | 13.6 miles | 6 | |
| Valley View Estates | 14.1 miles | 6 | |
| Victor | 14.4 miles | 9 | |
| Rosholt | 19.7 miles | 14 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1094786 | 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 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.



