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.
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 figuresFerney 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 42 | -1 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1895 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Ferney quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Groton Volunteer Fire Department | MIKE HARRY |
| 30 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 24 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SECTION 16 |
| 13 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | VOLLMER |
| 19 March 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RICK |
| 13 November 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 31 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BALL |
| 29 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SHADS WOODS |
| 12 October 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 120 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BADE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ferney | - | Sixty mph winds twisted, tore, and bent over some of the corn crop. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ferney | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ferney | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verdon | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hutterville Colony | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Groton | 8.1 miles | 11 | |
| Randolph | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Stratford | 11.0 miles | 10 | |
| James | 11.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bath Corner | 15.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bath | 15.3 miles | 11 |
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 Ferney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4256652 | 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 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.




