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Ferney, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in East Hanson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57439. The Survey maps it on the Ferney quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.

Ferney within Brown County

On record in Ferney

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

Ferney fell from 43 to 42 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
201043
202042-1 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Ferney between 2000 and 2017, burning about 171 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
13 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresGroton Volunteer Fire DepartmentMIKE HARRY
30 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use24 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSECTION 16
13 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionVOLLMER
19 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRICK
13 November 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
31 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBALL
29 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSHADS WOODS
12 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferney in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 13 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindFerney-Sixty mph winds twisted, tore, and bent over some of the corn crop.
July 2022HailFerney-no account filed
August 2021HailFerney-no account filed
June 2015HailFerney-no account filed
July 2015HailFerney-no account filed
June 2012HailFerney-no account filed
June 2009HailFerney-no account filed
June 2009HailFerney-no account filed
June 2009HailFerney-no account filed
June 2009HailFerney-no account filed
June 2006HailFerney-no account filed
July 2004HailFerney-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFerney-no account filed
June 2001HailFerney-no account filed
June 1999HailFerney-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindFerney-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFerney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Verdon6.0 miles11
Hutterville Colony7.4 miles10
Groton8.1 miles11
Randolph8.5 miles11
Stratford11.0 miles10
James11.2 miles11
Bath Corner15.2 miles11
Bath15.3 miles11

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 FerneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4256652The 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 1255039. 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.