Egan, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Egan City. It lies in ZIP code area 57024. It stands on Isanti Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trent quadrangle. 241 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,529 feet above sea level.
On record in Egan
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 2 records
South Dakota Dept. of Trans. Br. No. 51-124-136listed 2001- Egan Parklisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresEgan fell from 278 to 241 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 | 278 | |
| 2020 | 241 | -37 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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 Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Trent quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Egan between 2000 and 2014, burning about 182 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BIGGER SIOUX |
| 2 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colman Volunteer Fire Department | EGAN HAMAN |
| 29 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GILCHRIST FIRE |
| 3 May 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 22 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 23 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 9 February 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CHEATER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Egan: 6 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Flandreau Ready Mix Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Johnson Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Larsen Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rubin Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egan in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egan | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds flattened a Morton building. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egan | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roofs off several storage bins. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egan | - | A large grain bin at the Egan grain elevator was destroyed. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egan | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 4 foot diameter trees blown down. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Egan | - | A weak tornado tracked across farmland. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egan | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Egan | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Egan | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egan | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Egan | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux Falls Junction | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Lone Tree | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Flandreau | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Trent | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Colman | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Valley Colony | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Ward | 14.7 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 Egan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q970415 | 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 1254887. 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.



