Draper, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Draper Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57531. The Survey maps it on the Draper quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,264 feet above sea level.
On record in Draper
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 1 record
Freier Round Barnlisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresDraper fell from 82 to 46 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 | 82 | |
| 2020 | 46 | -36 (-44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Martin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Martin quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Draper quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS White River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Draper between 1999 and 2020, burning about 2,200 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Camp Crook Volunteer Fire Department | HOLSTI STACK |
| 13 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PATTERSON CA |
| 14 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Vivian Volunteer Fire Department | GARY SLETTO FIRE |
| 14 April 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Murdo Volunteer Fire Department | SLETTO |
| 18 October 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 900 acres | Murdo Volunteer Fire Department | VOLLMER/SLETTO |
| 18 October 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 600 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DRAPER |
| 18 October 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 600 acres | Vivian Volunteer Fire Department | GARY SLETTO |
| 13 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.6 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LOADER CA |
Storms near this place
60 of 70 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Draper in 70 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 34 thunderstorm wind, 33 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Draper | - | A trained spotter indicated that 3.5 inches of rain overnight had resulted in water over the roads in several places near his property. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | A trained spotter estimated 40 to 60 mph wind gust. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Draper | - | This report was relayed via social media with a photo. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Thunderstorm winds knocked down 8 power poles and damaged 7 outbuildings, trees and crops. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Draper | - | The hail measured two inches an hour after the storm had passed. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | A large tree was downed and the power was taken out by estimated seventy mph winds. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph wind was estimated. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | An estimated seventy mph wind blew over a second semi truck on Interstate-90 west and southwest of Draper. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Seventy mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Estimated eighty mph winds ripped off the machine shed doors and flipped over a trailer. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Seventy mph winds caused some power flashes. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Ninety mph winds caved in the side and blew the roof off a grain bin, knocked the doors off a machine shed, and flipped over a parked semi. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | A small tree was downed by 60 mph winds. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Seventy mph winds blew over a tractor-trailer on Interstate-90. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Seventy mph winds overturned a semi truck on Interstate-90 east of Draper. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated east of Draper. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds tore apart a pole barn. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | Sixty mph winds brought many tree limbs down. |
| October 2000 | Wildfire | Draper | - | A pickup caught on fire on Interstate-90 starting the nearby ditch on fire. With the strong winds and extremely dry conditions, the fire spread north and burned 800 to 900 acres of grass and pastureland. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Flood | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Draper | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | 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 Draper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q631187 | 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 1254741. 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.



