Erwin, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Erwin town. It lies in ZIP code area 57233. The Survey maps it on the Erwin quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,873 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresErwin fell from 45 to 40 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 40 | -5 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Erwin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 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 Erwin between 2000 and 2014, burning about 125 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Madison Wetland Management District | RS ANDERSON II |
| 8 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Madison Wetland Management District | RS ANDERSON I |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WISEMAN |
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WISEMAN2 |
| 11 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 31 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Desmet Volunteer Fire Department | INCIDENT #725 |
| 13 July 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 June 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.2 acres | Desmet Volunteer Fire Department | INCIDENT #717 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erwin in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 hail, 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Erwin | - | A tornado spun up initially around one-third mile southeast of the intersection of 202nd Street and 442nd Aveune. A video documented the tornado as it tracked east-northeast across open fields for around one mile before lifting just south of 202nd Street approximately one-half mile east of 443rd Avenue. The tornado caused no known damage to incur a rating. The average path width was 20 yards. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Erwin | - | Large hail continued to cause vehicle and crop damage along a path several miles long. The amount of damage was not known. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Erwin | - | Very large hail was confined to just a few stones. No reports of damage were received. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Erwin | - | Hail was mostly dime size with a few stones as large as golf balls. |
| August 2004 | Hail | Erwin | - | Large hail fell over a path 8 miles long and a mile to a mile and a half wide. The hail covered the ground and damaged crops. The crop damage varied and the amount of damage could not be determined. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Erwin | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including some trees blown down. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Erwin | - | A brief tornado in an open area resulted in no reported damage. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Erwin | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Erwin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| De Smet | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Lake Preston | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Badger | 12.7 miles | 9 | |
| Hetland | 13.5 miles | 9 | |
| Bancroft | 16.2 miles | 11 | |
| Fairview (historical) | 16.5 miles | 11 | |
| Manchester | 16.7 miles | 11 | |
| Arlington | 18.6 miles | 10 |
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 Erwin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2450624 | 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 1254958. 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.



