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Corsica, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Corsica City. It lies in ZIP code area 57328. The Survey maps it on the Corsica quadrangle. 561 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.

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Corsica within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Corsica fell from 592 to 561 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
2010592
2020561-31 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Corsica between 2000 and 2017, burning about 74 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresYankton AgencyBUBBA
5 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKUIL
19 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
4 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 March 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArmour Volunteer Fire DepartmentSPARKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corsica in 52 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 22 thunderstorm wind, 21 hail, 6 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindCorsica$40,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a church, damaged structures and seating as a baseball park, and caused widespread tree damage, with one tree falling on a car. The winds were accompanied by large hail.
July 2010HailCorsica$15,000Large hail broke several windows on the north and west side of buildings, damaged vehicles, stripped corn crops in the area and caused other crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known.
July 2020Flash FloodCorsica$10,000Roads were flooded over the curb in Armour, with water encroaching on several buildings. Numerous intersections along SD Highway 44 had standing water. Rainfall totaled 3.88 inches 3 miles south southwest of Corsica and 3.16 inches 5 miles west of Armour. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCorsica$10,000A farm outbuilding was destroyed by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCorsica$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down and flattened one grain bin and damaged several others. The winds also caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCorsica$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCorsica-An extended period of thunderstorm wind gusts was measured by a Road Weather Information System sensor near Corsica.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCorsica-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a Road Weather Information System sensor near Corsica.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCorsica-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a Road Weather Information System sensor near Corsica.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCorsica-An extended period of severe wind gusts was measured by South Dakota RWIS site near Corsica, with the peak wind gust at 2044 CST.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCorsica-Winds were measured by mobile wind equipment.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCorsica-A thunderstorm wind gust of 59 mph was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Corsica.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCorsica-A long duration of severe wind gusts was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Corsica, with a peak wind gust of 87 mph at 802 pm CST.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCorsica-A large cottonwood tree was uprooted by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCorsica-A thunderstorm wind gust of 65 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD601 3 miles south of Corsica. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindCorsica-A thunderstorm wind gust of 62 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD601 3 miles south of Corsica. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCorsica-A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD601 3 miles south of Corsica.
July 2018Flash FloodCorsica-Water going over the road at intersection of State Highway 44 and 395th Street. Heavy rain continues to fall at 1924CST.
July 2018Flash FloodCorsica-Torrential rainfall resulted in flooding of 280th Street between 395th and 396th Avenues. Numerous other township roads flooded across the eastern portion of the county.
July 2018FloodCorsica-Numerous county and township roads were flooded in eastern Douglas and northwest Hutchinson county. Areas hit especially hard were around the Pony Creek area near Parkston.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindCorsica-A few tree branches downed.
April 2015HailCorsica-Large hail covered the ground.
August 2014Flash FloodCorsica-Very heavy rain caused street flooding, with water 2 feet deep on some roads in Corsica.
July 2014HailCorsica-Large hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
July 2014HailCorsica-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to trees, vehicles, and buildings.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCorsica-Thunderstorm winds blew down branches from several trees.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCorsica-Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage.
June 2008Flash FloodCorsica-Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding of numerous roads and fields, and some basements. There was up to 6 feet of water over a bridge north of Delmont.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCorsica-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
July 2005HailCorsica-A prolonged period of small hail, accompanied by heavy rain, caused severe damage to crops in a two square mile area. Corn was stripped, and some bean fields were destroyed.
May 2004Heavy RainCorsica-Heavy rainfall of one to two inches in a short time briefly covered a few streets and fields with water.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCorsica-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in a power outage.
July 1998HailCorsica-Large hail damaged crops and broke some windows. The hail covered the ground in places. The amount of damage was not determined.
July 2020HailCorsica-no account filed
August 2017HailCorsica-no account filed
June 2017HailCorsica-no account filed
June 2017HailCorsica-no account filed
June 2017HailCorsica-no account filed
April 2015HailCorsica-no account filed
June 2009Funnel CloudCorsica-no account filed
June 2006HailCorsica-no account filed
July 2006HailCorsica-no account filed
June 2005HailCorsica-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCorsica-no account filed
August 2005HailCorsica-no account filed
July 2004HailCorsica-no account filed
August 2004HailCorsica-no account filed
July 2004HailCorsica-no account filed
July 2003HailCorsica-no account filed
August 2002HailCorsica-no account filed
September 1999Flash FloodCorsica-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCorsica-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Grandview (historical)3.2 miles9
Douglas City (historical)5.8 miles9
Harrison6.4 miles9
Armour8.0 miles9
New Holland10.7 miles9
Hillside10.8 miles9
Joubert13.8 miles9
Delmont16.9 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 CorsicaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2201132The 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 1254469. 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.