Farmer, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Farmer town. It lies in ZIP code area 57311. The Survey maps it on the Farmer quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.
On record in Farmer
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 1 record
Saint Peter's Grottolisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresFarmer grew from 10 to 15 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 | 10 | |
| 2020 | 15 | +5 (+50%) |
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 Farmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Salem quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
15 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Farmer between 2001 and 2020, burning about 45 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | McCook County | WAGNER |
| 1 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 25 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Spencer Volunteer Fire Department | DON PUEPKE |
| 9 June 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 21 May 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HURON |
| 16 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 6 April 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | K TUSCHEN |
| 10 April 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DOUG ONIEL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmer in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 1998 | Tornado (F3) | Farmer | $1,000,000 | A large and strengthening tornado destroyed buildings and other property on five farms and also destroyed trees and power lines before crossing the eastern edge of Hanson County. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF2) | Farmer | $10,000 | A tornado caused damage to trees and a junk yard after crossing over from McCook County. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmer | - | Thunderstorm winds blew over a tractor/trailer rig on Interstate 90. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Farmer | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmer | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down the side of a brick barn. The winds also caused crop damage, especially to corn, but the amount of damage could not be determined. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Farmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Farmer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandria | 7.0 miles | 12 | |
| Fulton | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Epiphany | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Emery | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Millbrook Colony | 10.5 miles | 12 | |
| Bard (historical) | 11.2 miles | 12 | |
| Rockport Colony | 12.6 miles | 11 | |
| Plano | 13.6 miles | 12 |
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 Farmer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2178191 | 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 1255013. 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.




