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.
Population over time
2 figuresCrocker 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 19 | |
| 2020 | 19 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Crocker quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2002Regional 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 use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 26 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bradley Volunteer Fire Department | NORTH OF RICHARD WELLS |
| 23 July 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FRITZOBERMEIER |
| 4 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Crocker | $150,000 | no account filed |
| April 2019 | Flood | Crocker | $120,800 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crocker | - | A trained spotter reported several tree branches were knocked down due to thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Crocker | - | Many city, county, and township roads had been flooded and closed throughout the county. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crocker | - | Seventy mph winds brought several large tree branches down. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Crocker | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Crocker | - | Dime to nickel size hail covered the ground up to 2 inches in spots. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crocker | - | Eighty mph winds brought down several trees and limbs and snapped off some power poles. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crocker | - | Damaging thunderstorm winds and hail destroyed a wheat crop and knocked down an apple tree along with many large branches. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Crocker | - | The hail destroyed a wheat crop. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Crocker | - | Hail caused undetermined crop damage. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Flood | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Flood | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Crocker | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Crocker | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lily (historical) | 3.4 miles | 7 | |
| Julian (historical) | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Bradley | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Gros (historical) | 8.4 miles | 7 | |
| Hillcrest Colony | 12.5 miles | 8 | |
| Garden City | 14.8 miles | 8 | |
| Raymond | 15.6 miles | 8 | |
| Clark | 15.9 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 Crocker | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5792042 | 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 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.



