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.
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
- Harlow Farmsteadlisted 1982
- Old Spink Colonylisted 1982
- South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 58-218-360listed 1993
Population over time
2 figuresFrankfort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 149 | |
| 2020 | 134 | -15 (-10%) |
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 Byron quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Huron quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Redfield quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
20 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Frankfort | $5,000 | A section of a gravel driveway was washed out requiring some repairs. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | A trained spotter reported numerous tree branches downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | Several large tree branches were broken off by the high winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Frankfort | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Frankfort | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glendale Colony | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Camrose Colony | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Spink Colony | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Crandon | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Doland | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Redfield | 11.3 miles | 8 | |
| Ashton | 13.1 miles | 10 | |
| Tulare | 14.5 miles | 8 |
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 Frankfort | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2543385 | 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 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.




