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.
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
Augustana Swedish Lutheran Churchlisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresClaremont 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 127 | |
| 2020 | 108 | -19 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1896 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Claremont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 750 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | OLSON |
| 24 March 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SCHULLER |
Storms near this place
20 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | $500 | Several tree limbs were broken and a few trees were uprooted. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | Several large trees were downed by estimated seventy-five mph winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | Sixty mph winds downed a large tree limb. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | A machine shed was destroyed by eighty mph winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | Sixty mph winds took the top of a 12 foot tree off. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Claremont | - | Sixty mph winds broke off several large tree branches in town. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Wildfire | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Claremont | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Claremont | - | 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 Claremont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2546442 | 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 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.




