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Faith, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Faith City. It lies in ZIP code area 57626. The Survey maps it on the Faith quadrangle. 367 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,595 feet above sea level.

Faith within Meade County

On record in Faith

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Faith fell from 421 to 367 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
2010421
2020367-54 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Faith between 1996 and 2015, burning about 689 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
26 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyBUTLER
20 August 1996Natural400 acresCheyenne River AgencyDUPREECOMP
2 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCheyenne River AgencyBADGER 2
8 July 2007Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
22 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
22 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 July 2006Natural40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

60 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faith in 64 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 32 hail, 28 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFaith$500,000MANY TREES AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFaith$250,000Power lines were downed by winds. Several homes were damaged and 2 mobile homes were destroyed by high winds.
June 2003HailFaith$250,000Large hail damaged homes and automobiles in Faith.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFaith$150,000Strong winds tore half the roof off a house and blew down two outbuildings on the south side of Faith. Several empty truck trailers were tipped over and large trees throughout town were broken and blown over. Several power poles were downed, causing the loss of electric service for about 36 hours in much of the town. Hail accumulated to a depth of 12 inches.
June 2005HailFaith$5,000Siding on house damaged and windshield of automobile broken.
August 2004HailFaith$5,000Windows were broken from the combination of hail and wind.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindFaith$5,000Windows were broken from the combination of hail and wind.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFaith$2,000Thunderstorm wind gusts moved a calf shelter, lifted a water tank from the back of a pickup truck, and damaged trees.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFaith-Downed trees and impassable roads in Faith from 80 to 90 mph winds.
July 2024HailFaith-Hail up to golf ball size covered the ground. The combination of hail and wind gusts to 50 mph stripped leaves from trees.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindFaith-Strong winds gusting up to 90 mph damaged and downed power poles. A shed was blown onto a highway and four outbuildings were destroyed, including a barn that was ripped out of the ground.
August 2023Flash FloodFaith-Runoff from heavy rain caused 196th Place west-southwest of Faith to flood. Water also ponded in fields and ditches. Over three inches of rain fell in about two hours.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFaith-Winds were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFaith-Large trees were blown down by the wind.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFaith-The public estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFaith-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2016HailFaith-The storm also produced wind gusts to 50 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFaith-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFaith-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindFaith-Wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFaith-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2010Tornado (EF0)Faith-A second tornado touched down southwest of Faith and traveled north, dissipating shortly after it crossed U.S. Highway 212 west of Faith. It caused no damage.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFaith-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2008HailFaith-Hail accumulated three to four inches deep along Highway 212 west of Faith.
July 2005HailFaith-Lots of nickel sized hail with a few hail stones to 3 inches in diameter.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Faith-A trained spotter reported a rapidly formed funnel cloud that briefly touched down, then dissipated.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Faith-A fireman, who was a trained storm spotter, reported seeing a tornado form and momentarily touch the ground south of Faith.
July 1997HailFaith-Hail covered the ground.
June 2021HailFaith-no account filed
July 2021HailFaith-no account filed
August 2021HailFaith-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
June 2020HailFaith-no account filed
June 2020HailFaith-no account filed
June 2020HailFaith-no account filed
June 2020HailFaith-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
May 2016HailFaith-no account filed
June 2015HailFaith-no account filed
June 2012HailFaith-no account filed
June 2010HailFaith-no account filed
August 2010HailFaith-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
July 2008HailFaith-no account filed
August 2008Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
June 2007HailFaith-no account filed
June 2007HailFaith-no account filed
June 2006HailFaith-no account filed
June 2006HailFaith-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
July 2005HailFaith-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
June 2003HailFaith-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFaith-no account filed
July 2001HailFaith-no account filed
June 2000HailFaith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Avance (historical)13.3 miles7
Opal23.8 miles7
Fox Ridge26.0 miles6
Howes27.9 miles8
Marcus28.1 miles7
Maurine29.5 miles7
Plainview29.8 miles7
Cedar Canyon34.7 miles8

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 FaithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2366775The 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 1255004. 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.