Fedora, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57337. The Survey maps it on the Fedora quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFedora fell from 37 to 26 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 | 37 | |
| 2020 | 26 | -11 (-30%) |
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 De Smet quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Fedora quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fedora: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shove Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fedora in 32 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 20 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Fedora | $10,000 | Large hail dented several vehicles. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | Numerous trees downed. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Fedora | - | Hail sizes ranged from half dollar to ping-pong size. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | Small branches downed. |
| July 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Fedora | - | A tornado caused an unknown amount of crop damage. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Fedora | - | Tennis ball size hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles, windows, and crops. The hail was accompanied by estimated 50 mph wind gusts and heavy rain. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 4 inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 3 to 4 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | Thunderstorm winds caused an unknown amount of crop damage. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Fedora | - | Large hail damaged corn and soybean crops. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Fedora | - | Four to five inches of rain fell over much of Miner County, flooding fields and small urban areas. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several 4 to 6 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Fedora | - | Hail of unknown size broke windows and damaged crops. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| September 1998 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Fedora | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Fedora | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roswell | 5.0 miles | 12 | |
| Argonne | 9.2 miles | 12 | |
| Vilas | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Carthage | 11.9 miles | 11 | |
| Howard | 14.0 miles | 11 | |
| Canova | 17.6 miles | 11 | |
| Cloverleaf Colony | 18.0 miles | 11 | |
| Shannon Colony | 19.5 miles | 6 |
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 Fedora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4258180 | 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 1255027. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




