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Dallas, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Dallas town. It lies in ZIP code area 57529. The Survey maps it on the Dallas quadrangle. 89 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,234 feet above sea level.

Dallas within Gregory County

On record in Dallas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dallas fell from 120 to 89 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
2010120
202089-31 (-26%)

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

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Dallas between 1998 and 2019, burning about 194 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2008Debris and open burning2.1 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
18 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCALDWELL FIRE
9 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
31 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFORTUNA FIRE
4 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTENNIS COURT
4 July 2007Fireworksunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
30 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregory County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dallas: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fedde PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Paul Liebel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gregory County

Storms near this place

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dallas in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindDallas$10,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDallas-A thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site at Dallas.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindDallas-A few trees were knocked down around town.
June 2010Flash FloodDallas-Heavy rain flooded several roads, especially 289th street near Ponca Creek.
June 2010HailDallas-Large hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.
August 2008HailDallas-Large hail was accompanied by one inch of rainfall.
June 2008HailDallas-Large hail covered the ground. The hail caused severe crop damage in the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
June 2005HailDallas-Large hail was preceded by wind gusts to 45 mph.
June 2003HailDallas-Large hail covered the ground.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Dallas-A brief tornado in open country caused no reported damage.
August 2002HailDallas-Large hail covered the ground and a highway. The hail caused widespread and severe crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDallas-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees snapped in half.
September 2000LightningDallas-Lightning caused a grass fire which burned about 500 acres. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2019HailDallas-no account filed
June 2018HailDallas-no account filed
August 2007HailDallas-no account filed
June 2005HailDallas-no account filed
June 2004HailDallas-no account filed
June 2004HailDallas-no account filed
June 2003HailDallas-no account filed
August 2002HailDallas-no account filed
June 2001HailDallas-no account filed
June 1999HailDallas-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDallas-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Dallas-no account filed
May 1998HailDallas-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gregory 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
Gregory4.6 miles8
Dixon10.4 miles8
Carlock11.5 miles8
Burke12.5 miles8
Lucas16.4 miles9
Herrick19.3 miles8
Saint Charles24.6 miles8
Bonesteel32.3 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 DallasAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2300556The 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 1254595. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.