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Crocker, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Spring Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57217. The Survey maps it on the Crocker quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,790 feet above sea level.

Crocker within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Crocker grew from 19 to 19 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
201019
2020190 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Crocker between 2002 and 2015, burning about 10 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 August 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBradley Volunteer Fire DepartmentNORTH OF RICHARD WELLS
23 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFRITZOBERMEIER
4 April 2006Debris and open burning6.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crocker in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 11 hail, 8 flood, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2023FloodCrocker$150,000no account filed
April 2019FloodCrocker$120,800no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindCrocker-A trained spotter reported several tree branches were knocked down due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2019FloodCrocker-Many city, county, and township roads had been flooded and closed throughout the county.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCrocker-Seventy mph winds brought several large tree branches down.
July 2010HailCrocker-A supercell thunderstorm tracking southeast across Clark county produced anywhere from quarter to baseball size hail along with wind gusts over 70 mph from Crocker to Clark to Naples to Vienna. The large hail and winds caused extensive damage to homes, outbuildings, vehicles, and thousands of acres of crops. Many trees and gardens were also damaged or destroyed by the hail and high winds. The storm entered western Hamlin county.
June 2009HailCrocker-Dime to nickel size hail covered the ground up to 2 inches in spots.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCrocker-Eighty mph winds brought down several trees and limbs and snapped off some power poles.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCrocker-Damaging thunderstorm winds and hail destroyed a wheat crop and knocked down an apple tree along with many large branches.
July 1997HailCrocker-The hail destroyed a wheat crop.
June 1994HailCrocker-Hail caused undetermined crop damage.
June 2019FloodCrocker-no account filed
May 2019FloodCrocker-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCrocker-no account filed
March 2011FloodCrocker-no account filed
April 2011FloodCrocker-no account filed
June 2011HailCrocker-no account filed
July 2010HailCrocker-no account filed
July 2010HailCrocker-no account filed
March 2010FloodCrocker-no account filed
May 2006HailCrocker-no account filed
June 2006HailCrocker-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCrocker-no account filed
August 1999HailCrocker-no account filed
July 1997HailCrocker-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Lily (historical)3.4 miles7
Julian (historical)7.5 miles8
Bradley7.5 miles7
Gros (historical)8.4 miles7
Hillcrest Colony12.5 miles8
Garden City14.8 miles8
Raymond15.6 miles8
Clark15.9 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 CrockerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5792042The 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 1254544. 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.