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.
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
Dallas Carnegie Librarylisted 1976
St. Augustine Churchlisted 2009
St. John's Catholic Churchlisted 2009
Population over time
2 figuresDallas 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 120 | |
| 2020 | 89 | -31 (-26%) |
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.
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Winner quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
31 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 18 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CALDWELL FIRE |
| 9 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 31 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FORTUNA FIRE |
| 4 July 2017 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TENNIS COURT |
| 4 July 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 30 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fedde Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Paul Liebel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
26 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site at Dallas. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas | - | A few trees were knocked down around town. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Dallas | - | Heavy rain flooded several roads, especially 289th street near Ponca Creek. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Dallas | - | Large hail was accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Dallas | - | Large hail was accompanied by one inch of rainfall. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Dallas | - | Large hail covered the ground. The hail caused severe crop damage in the area, but the amount of crop damage was not known. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dallas | - | Large hail was preceded by wind gusts to 45 mph. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Dallas | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Dallas | - | A brief tornado in open country caused no reported damage. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Dallas | - | 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees snapped in half. |
| September 2000 | Lightning | Dallas | - | Lightning caused a grass fire which burned about 500 acres. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Dallas | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Dallas | - | 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.
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 Dallas | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2300556 | 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 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.




