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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.

Fruitdale within Butte County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fruitdale 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.

YearPeople Change
201064
202073+9 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

10 since 2000

Regional 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
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 August 2006Natural200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 August 2006Natural40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
13 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEdgemont Volunteer Fire DepartmentDEAD HORSE CANYON
12 August 2000Natural950 acresEdgemont Volunteer Fire DepartmentCHILSON MT 2
11 August 2000Naturalunder an acreEdgemont Volunteer Fire DepartmentFLINT HILL 2
1 August 2000Natural2.0 acresEdgemont Volunteer Fire DepartmentSILO
3 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionORMAN DAM
1 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use8.4 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDAKOTA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte County

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Flash FloodFruitdale$5,000Runoff 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 2012Heavy RainFruitdale-Runoff from heavy rain ponded in yards and fields.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFruitdale-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2023HailFruitdale-no account filed
June 2023HailFruitdale-no account filed
May 2018HailFruitdale-no account filed
June 2012HailFruitdale-no account filed
July 2011HailFruitdale-no account filed
August 2004HailFruitdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butte 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
Snoma (historical)1.4 miles13
Nisland7.6 miles12
Belle Fourche8.2 miles14
Arpan8.7 miles9
Jolly Dump10.4 miles15
Newell15.0 miles12
Vale16.0 miles13
Empire20.2 miles13

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 FruitdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2380343The 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.