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.
Population over time
2 figuresCresbard 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 104 | |
| 2020 | 96 | -8 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1899 USGS Northville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Cresbard quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 43 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FINLEY HAY FIELD FIRE |
| 6 August 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CARDA HAY FIRE |
| 28 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WOLTERS |
| 1 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HUMBLE |
| 6 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CELL PHONE FIRE |
| 22 June 2017 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NASH TREE FIRE |
| 20 June 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lead Fire Department | PIT |
| 31 May 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
50 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Hail | Cresbard | - | Hail with a diameter of 3.5 inches was measured five miles north of Cresbard. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Cresbard | - | Baseball-sized hail was reported near Chelsea, causing damage to vehicles, siding, and nearby crops. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Estimated 70+ mph winds moved a grain cart around 15 feet. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Severe winds of over ninety mph damaged several buildings and grain bins along with downing multiple power poles. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Sixty mph winds downed several tree branches. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Cresbard | - | Very heavy rains of around 3 inches flooded a township road for several hours. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Cresbard | - | A tornado was confirmed by aerial photography from a local pilot. The tornado scoured a path through some crops. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Sixty mph winds downed some large tree limbs. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Several large branches were downed by sixty mph winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Strong winds took the roof off a small shed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Sixty mph winds brought several tree branches down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Trees were snapped off from the very high winds. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | Winds to 65 mph brought down several trees north of Cresbard. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | 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 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Cresbard | - | A narrow path tornado touched downed briefly three miles west of Cresbard or 32 miles southwest of Aberdeen. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Cresbard | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cresbard | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Cresbard | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Colony | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Devoe | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Wecota | 9.0 miles | 8 | |
| Chelsea | 11.1 miles | 8 | |
| Blumengard Colony | 12.8 miles | 7 | |
| Millard | 13.1 miles | 7 | |
| Faulkton | 13.2 miles | 8 | |
| Miranda | 13.7 miles | 8 |
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 Cresbard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3239698 | 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 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.




