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Faulkton, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tamworth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57438. The Survey maps it on the Faulkton East quadrangle. 826 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,581 feet above sea level.

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Faulkton within Faulk County

On record in Faulkton

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Faulkton grew from 736 to 826 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
2010736
2020826+90 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Faulkton in 2000, burning about 7 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
Natural1

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
15 July 2000Natural7.0 acresOrient Volunteer Fire DepartmentJOE BOWAR

Every fire recorded in Faulk County

Storms near this place

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faulkton in 53 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 30 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-An elm tree was snapped, and several 2 to 4 inch diameter branches were downed by estimated 70 mph winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-A tree was downed by estimated seventy mph winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Several power poles and lines were downed by estimated eighty mph winds along with many large tree limbs.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-A large tree was uprooted by an estimated seventy mph wind.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Estimated seventy mph winds brought many tree branches down along with knocking out power for about half of Faulkton.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-An estimated wind gust of sixty mph was reported by law enforcement.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Eighty mph winds downed many trees in Faulkton along with damaging shingles and the roofs of several buildings. The high winds also caused power outages in Faulkton for several hours.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Faulkton-A tornado touched downed in Faulkton destroying a large fertilizer plant.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Faulkton received a lot of damage from winds over 100 mph. Numerous trees, power lines and poles were downed, along with a lot of structural damage to buildings.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-On two different farms about five miles east of Faulkton, winds to 80 mph uprooted many trees, destroyed three steel grain bins, destroyed the roof on an historic barn, and the doors were blown off of several farm buildings.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Winds to nearly 70 mph blew shingles off of the house, damaged a barn, and brought a few trees and many branches down.
August 2000Tornado (F0)Faulkton-A tornado touched down on the east side of Faulkton and tipped over and severely damaged the new press box and bleachers at the ball field. The tornado also knocked down some light poles and destroyed a hanger, an airplane, and a gyrocopter at the airport.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Eighty mph winds brought a large tree down onto a mobile home at Lake Faulkton causing severe damage. Also, many other trees were downed at Lake Faulkton and some buildings were destroyed.
August 2000HailFaulkton-Softball hail broke windows and caused extensive damage to a few vehicles and homes west of Faulkton.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Seventy mph winds downed several trees east of Faulkton.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-Eighty mph winds brought down several trees and many tree branches throughout Faulkton.
June 2025HailFaulkton-no account filed
May 2022HailFaulkton-no account filed
August 2022HailFaulkton-no account filed
May 2021Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
July 2021HailFaulkton-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
May 2011HailFaulkton-no account filed
August 2011HailFaulkton-no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
July 2008Funnel CloudFaulkton-no account filed
April 2007HailFaulkton-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
September 2005HailFaulkton-no account filed
May 2004HailFaulkton-no account filed
May 2004HailFaulkton-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
July 2002HailFaulkton-no account filed
June 2002HailFaulkton-no account filed
July 2001HailFaulkton-no account filed
August 2001HailFaulkton-no account filed
June 2000HailFaulkton-no account filed
June 2000HailFaulkton-no account filed
July 2000HailFaulkton-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
August 2000HailFaulkton-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed
September 1997HailFaulkton-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFaulkton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Faulk 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
Evergreen Colony7.4 miles8
Millard8.7 miles7
Orient9.5 miles9
Wecota9.5 miles8
Miranda9.5 miles8
Burkmere10.0 miles7
Norbeck11.3 miles7
Brentwood Colony12.4 miles7

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 FaulktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2438591The 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 1255021. 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.