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.
Population over time
2 figuresEmery 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 447 | |
| 2020 | 484 | +37 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bridgewater West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hanson County | N/A |
| 15 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LEIGHTY BALES |
| 20 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Spencer Volunteer Fire Department | EXIT 353 I-90 |
| 9 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Hanson County | WEBER CRP |
| 26 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Spencer Volunteer Fire Department | ROGER GERLACH |
| 15 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WIEBE |
| 12 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | I 90 5/12 |
| 7 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Storms near this place
19 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emery | $50,000 | Thunderstorm 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 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Emery | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emery | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds destroyed a machine shed and an outbuilding on a farm, and overturned a grainvac machine. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emery | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Emery | - | A tornado damaged a house, garage, barn, and power lines. The amount of damage was not known. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emery | - | Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of tree damage. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emery | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including small limbs blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emery | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged corn in many fields. The amount of crop damage was not known, since some recovery was expected.. |
| September 2006 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Emery | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Emery | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Emery | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Lane Colony | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Farmer | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Alexandria | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Rockport Colony | 11.5 miles | 11 | |
| Fulton | 13.6 miles | 12 | |
| Millbrook Colony | 14.2 miles | 12 | |
| Bard (historical) | 16.2 miles | 12 | |
| Epiphany | 17.2 miles | 11 |
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 Emery | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2661504 | 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 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.




