Fruitdale, South Dakota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Fruitdale town. It lies in ZIP code area 57717. It stands on Crooked Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fruitdale quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,949 feet above sea level.
On record in Fruitdale
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 4 records
Fruitdale Schoollisted 1986
Fruitdale Storelisted 1986- William Johnson Houselisted 1986
- Snoma Finnish Cemeterylisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresFruitdale grew from 64 to 73 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 | 64 | |
| 2020 | 73 | +9 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1905 USGS Saint Onge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1907 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Fruitdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Saint Onge quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Rapid City quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Belle Fourche quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fruitdale between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,304 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | 200 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 August 2006 | Natural | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 13 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department | DEAD HORSE CANYON |
| 12 August 2000 | Natural | 950 acres | Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department | CHILSON MT 2 |
| 11 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department | FLINT HILL 2 |
| 1 August 2000 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Edgemont Volunteer Fire Department | SILO |
| 3 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ORMAN DAM |
| 1 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.4 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DAKOTA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fruitdale in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Fruitdale | $5,000 | Runoff from heavy rain flooded Crooked Oaks Road just south of Snoma Road. Gravel was washed off the road and the road was impassable for a couple of hours. |
| June 2012 | Heavy Rain | Fruitdale | - | Runoff from heavy rain ponded in yards and fields. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fruitdale | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Fruitdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Fruitdale | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Fruitdale | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Fruitdale | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Fruitdale | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Fruitdale | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snoma (historical) | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Nisland | 7.6 miles | 12 | |
| Belle Fourche | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| Arpan | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Jolly Dump | 10.4 miles | 15 | |
| Newell | 15.0 miles | 12 | |
| Vale | 16.0 miles | 13 | |
| Empire | 20.2 miles | 13 |
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 Fruitdale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2380343 | 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 1255175. 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.






