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Colome, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Colome City. It lies in ZIP code area 57528. The Survey maps it on the Colome quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,283 feet above sea level.

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Colome within Tripp County

On record in Colome

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

Colome grew from 296 to 331 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
2010296
2020331+35 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

41 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Colome between 1999 and 2019, burning about 330 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined22
Natural7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMILLER
9 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRICHARD SCHWARTZ
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWATZEL/THEIMAN929
26 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresColome Volunteer Fire DepartmentJOEL KEIRLEBER
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMILLER
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH FIRE
14 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNICHOLAS
6 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 18 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tripp 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 Colome: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Woidneck PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Tripp County

Storms near this place

60 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colome in 69 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 43 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2010HailColome1 hurt, $600,000Golfball to baseball sized hail damaged homes and automobiles in Colome. A woman was hit in the head by a hail stone.
June 2008Flash FloodColome$250,000no account filed
June 2024Flash FloodColome$30,000Runoff from heavy rain caused flash flooding. At least 12 county roads were inundated with water and debris. The hardest hit areas were around Witten, Winner, and Hamill.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindColome$5,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a small shed, blowing the debris across a field almost a mile. A semi truck and trailer were tipped over. Time was estimated from radar.
August 2009HailColome$3,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindColome$1,000Several 300 pound hog feeders were blown over and damaged.
May 1998HailColome$1,000Hail broke two house windows .
August 2024Thunderstorm WindColome-Damage to crops and buildings due to wind driven hail.
June 2023Flash FloodColome-Five to eight inches of rain fell within two days, with three inches of rain falling in an hour during the afternoon of June 22. Numerous roads were covered with water including 228th Street, 325th Avenue, 326th Avenue, 328th Avenue, 290th Street, 291st Street, and 327th Street. Water filled Roosevelt Lake and inundated several fields and low lying areas.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindColome-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindColome-A pole barn was partially lifted off the ground and several roof panels were blown off.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindColome-Hay bales were blown across the road. Some vehicles were struck by hay bales and knocked off the road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindColome-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
September 2015Flash FloodColome-Water overflowed 290th Street west of Highway 183. Dry stock ponds quickly filled and gravel was washed off some roads in southern Tripp County.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindColome-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindColome-Wind gusts were estimated near 60 mph.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindColome-Wind gusts around 60 mph were reported.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindColome-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
September 2010HailColome-Quarter sized hail covered the ground.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindColome-Pea to dime sized hail accompanied the wind.
July 2010HailColome-Quarter sized hail covered the ground.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindColome-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2008FloodColome-The White River in northern Tripp County crested four feet over the flood stage of 15.0 feet.
August 2024HailColome-no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed
June 2019HailColome-no account filed
August 2019HailColome-no account filed
September 2019HailColome-no account filed
June 2018HailColome-no account filed
June 2018HailColome-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed
August 2017HailColome-no account filed
August 2017HailColome-no account filed
July 2017HailColome-no account filed
July 2016HailColome-no account filed
July 2015HailColome-no account filed
May 2010HailColome-no account filed
July 2010HailColome-no account filed
July 2010HailColome-no account filed
May 2010HailColome-no account filed
July 2009HailColome-no account filed
August 2008HailColome-no account filed
August 2008HailColome-no account filed
August 2008HailColome-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed
May 2007HailColome-no account filed
June 2007HailColome-no account filed
June 2007HailColome-no account filed
June 2007HailColome-no account filed
June 2007HailColome-no account filed
June 2007HailColome-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed
August 2007HailColome-no account filed
August 2007HailColome-no account filed
June 2005HailColome-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed
August 2003HailColome-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindColome-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tripp 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
Winner11.1 miles8
Wewela17.6 miles8
Clearfield17.8 miles5
Millboro18.7 miles8
Jordan Junction18.7 miles5
Ideal22.4 miles8
Witten22.9 miles5
Hamill23.1 miles9

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 ColomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2618803The 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 1254435. 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.