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Emery, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Emery City. It lies in ZIP code area 57332. The Survey maps it on the Bridgewater West quadrangle. 484 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,388 feet above sea level.

Emery within Hanson County

Population over time

2 figures

Emery grew from 447 to 484 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
2010447
2020484+37 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Emery between 2002 and 2020, burning about 27 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning2
Natural1

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
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHanson CountyN/A
15 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLEIGHTY BALES
20 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpencer Volunteer Fire DepartmentEXIT 353 I-90
9 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresHanson CountyWEBER CRP
26 May 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresSpencer Volunteer Fire DepartmentROGER GERLACH
15 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWIEBE
12 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI 90 5/12
7 April 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Every fire recorded in Hanson County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emery in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Thunderstorm WindEmery$50,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree and power line damage. Numerous large trees were blown down, two of which heavily damaged a car and the roof of a house. Extensive cleanup of trees and debris was needed. The downed power lines resulted in a power outage affecting much of Emery for four and a half hours.
May 1998Tornado (F1)Emery$20,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindEmery$5,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed and an outbuilding on a farm, and overturned a grainvac machine.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindEmery$5,000no account filed
May 2007Tornado (EF1)Emery-A tornado damaged a house, garage, barn, and power lines. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindEmery-Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindEmery-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including small limbs blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindEmery-Thunderstorm winds damaged corn in many fields. The amount of crop damage was not known, since some recovery was expected..
September 2006HailEmery-no account filed
September 2006HailEmery-no account filed
September 2006HailEmery-no account filed
August 2005HailEmery-no account filed
August 2005HailEmery-no account filed
November 2005HailEmery-no account filed
July 2004HailEmery-no account filed
July 2004HailEmery-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindEmery-no account filed
June 2002HailEmery-no account filed
June 2001HailEmery-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hanson 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
Oak Lane Colony9.0 miles11
Farmer9.1 miles11
Alexandria9.2 miles12
Rockport Colony11.5 miles11
Fulton13.6 miles12
Millbrook Colony14.2 miles12
Bard (historical)16.2 miles12
Epiphany17.2 miles11

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 EmeryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2661504The 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 1254933. 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.