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Claremont, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Claremont town. It lies in ZIP code area 57432. The Survey maps it on the Claremont quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.

Claremont within Brown County

On record in Claremont

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Claremont fell from 127 to 108 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
2010127
2020108-19 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Claremont between 2003 and 2015, burning about 790 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined750 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOLSON
24 March 2003Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHULLER

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claremont in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindClaremont$500Several tree limbs were broken and a few trees were uprooted.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindClaremont-Several large trees were downed by estimated seventy-five mph winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindClaremont-Sixty mph winds downed a large tree limb.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindClaremont-A machine shed was destroyed by eighty mph winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindClaremont-Sixty mph winds took the top of a 12 foot tree off.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindClaremont-Sixty mph winds broke off several large tree branches in town.
June 2024HailClaremont-no account filed
April 2022HailClaremont-no account filed
April 2022HailClaremont-no account filed
June 2021HailClaremont-no account filed
April 2020HailClaremont-no account filed
June 2020HailClaremont-no account filed
July 2009HailClaremont-no account filed
May 2005HailClaremont-no account filed
September 2005HailClaremont-no account filed
August 2004HailClaremont-no account filed
May 2002WildfireClaremont-no account filed
May 2001HailClaremont-no account filed
July 2000HailClaremont-no account filed
July 1996HailClaremont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Huffton5.6 miles9
Putney11.4 miles9
Houghton12.1 miles14
Tacoma Park15.1 miles9
Groton16.1 miles11
Columbia16.3 miles10
Hecla16.3 miles13
James17.6 miles11

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 ClaremontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2546442The 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 1254373. 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.