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Cresbard, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57435. The Survey maps it on the Cresbard quadrangle. 96 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.

Cresbard within Faulk County

Population over time

2 figures

Cresbard fell from 104 to 96 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
2010104
202096-8 (-8%)

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

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Cresbard between 1999 and 2019, burning about 110 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
Natural2

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
21 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use43 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFINLEY HAY FIELD FIRE
6 August 2019Natural1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCARDA HAY FIRE
28 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWOLTERS
1 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHUMBLE
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCELL PHONE FIRE
22 June 2017Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNASH TREE FIRE
20 June 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLead Fire DepartmentPIT
31 May 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Faulk County

Storms near this place

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cresbard in 50 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 28 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2025HailCresbard-Hail with a diameter of 3.5 inches was measured five miles north of Cresbard.
July 2025HailCresbard-Baseball-sized hail was reported near Chelsea, causing damage to vehicles, siding, and nearby crops.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Estimated 70+ mph winds moved a grain cart around 15 feet.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Severe winds of over ninety mph damaged several buildings and grain bins along with downing multiple power poles.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches.
June 2014Flash FloodCresbard-Very heavy rains of around 3 inches flooded a township road for several hours.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Cresbard-A tornado was confirmed by aerial photography from a local pilot. The tornado scoured a path through some crops.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Sixty mph winds downed some large tree limbs.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Several large branches were downed by sixty mph winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Strong winds took the roof off a small shed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Winds over 100 mph uprooted or snapped off many large trees, destroyed several grain bins, severely damaged several structures, and snapped off 10 to 15 power poles for a mile north of Cresbard.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Sixty mph winds brought several tree branches down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Trees were snapped off from the very high winds.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Winds to 65 mph brought down several trees north of Cresbard.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindCresbard-Winds gusting to 80 mph at a farm southeast of Cresbard overturned some farm equipment, rolled hay bales, snapped off a tree, moved the home air conditioner a few feet off of its cement base, and rolled a large chemical tank. Marble size hail in combination with the high winds broke many windows on the farm.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Cresbard-A narrow path tornado touched downed briefly three miles west of Cresbard or 32 miles southwest of Aberdeen.
June 1994HailCresbard-Hail covered the ground.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCresbard-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCresbard-no account filed
June 2025HailCresbard-no account filed
June 2025HailCresbard-no account filed
July 2016HailCresbard-no account filed
July 2016HailCresbard-no account filed
May 2014HailCresbard-no account filed
May 2010Funnel CloudCresbard-no account filed
July 2009HailCresbard-no account filed
July 2009HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2007HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2007HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2007HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2007HailCresbard-no account filed
June 2006HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2006HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2006HailCresbard-no account filed
September 2006HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2006HailCresbard-no account filed
June 2005HailCresbard-no account filed
July 2004HailCresbard-no account filed
August 2003HailCresbard-no account filed
July 2002HailCresbard-no account filed
June 2002HailCresbard-no account filed
July 1998HailCresbard-no account filed
June 1998HailCresbard-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCresbard-no account filed
June 1997HailCresbard-no account filed
July 1995HailCresbard-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindCresbard-no account filed
June 1994Tornado (F0)Cresbard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulk 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
Evergreen Colony6.0 miles8
Devoe6.5 miles8
Wecota9.0 miles8
Chelsea11.1 miles8
Blumengard Colony12.8 miles7
Millard13.1 miles7
Faulkton13.2 miles8
Miranda13.7 miles8

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 CresbardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3239698The 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 1254541. 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.