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Frankfort, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Frankfort City. It lies in ZIP code area 57440. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle. 134 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.

Frankfort within Spink County

On record in Frankfort

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Frankfort fell from 149 to 134 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
2010149
2020134-15 (-10%)

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.

Storms near this place

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frankfort in 20 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2013Flash FloodFrankfort$5,000A section of a gravel driveway was washed out requiring some repairs.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-A trained spotter reported numerous tree branches downed by thunderstorm winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Seventy mph winds destroyed three grain bins along with downing numerous trees in a shelter belt. Significant crop damage also occurred from the combination of winds and dime size hail.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-Several large tree branches were broken off by the high winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFrankfort-no account filed
September 2016HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2015HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2015HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2015HailFrankfort-no account filed
June 2013HailFrankfort-no account filed
September 2013HailFrankfort-no account filed
September 2013HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2012HailFrankfort-no account filed
May 2012HailFrankfort-no account filed
September 2007HailFrankfort-no account filed
September 2005HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2003HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2003HailFrankfort-no account filed
July 2002HailFrankfort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spink 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
Glendale Colony5.4 miles10
Camrose Colony6.0 miles10
Spink Colony9.0 miles11
Crandon10.7 miles10
Doland10.9 miles10
Redfield11.3 miles8
Ashton13.1 miles10
Tulare14.5 miles8

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 FrankfortAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2543385The 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 1255142. 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.

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.