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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.

Farmer within Hanson County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Farmer 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.

YearPeople Change
201010
202015+5 (+50%)

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

15 since 2001

Regional 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMcCook CountyWAGNER
1 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
25 August 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresSpencer Volunteer Fire DepartmentDON PUEPKE
9 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHURON
16 May 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
6 April 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionK TUSCHEN
10 April 2020Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDOUG ONIEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hanson County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Tornado (F3)Farmer$1,000,000A 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 2007Tornado (EF2)Farmer$10,000A tornado caused damage to trees and a junk yard after crossing over from McCook County.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindFarmer-Thunderstorm winds blew over a tractor/trailer rig on Interstate 90.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Farmer-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindFarmer-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 2018HailFarmer-no account filed
May 2012HailFarmer-no account filed
May 2012HailFarmer-no account filed
September 2010HailFarmer-no account filed
October 2007HailFarmer-no account filed
September 2007HailFarmer-no account filed
August 2006HailFarmer-no account filed
August 2004HailFarmer-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFarmer-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFarmer-no account filed
August 2002HailFarmer-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
Alexandria7.0 miles12
Fulton7.2 miles12
Epiphany8.8 miles11
Emery9.1 miles11
Millbrook Colony10.5 miles12
Bard (historical)11.2 miles12
Rockport Colony12.6 miles11
Plano13.6 miles12

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 FarmerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2178191The 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.