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Garden City, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57236. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle. 33 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,850 feet above sea level.

Garden City within Clark County

On record in Garden City

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 figures

Garden City fell from 53 to 33 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
201053
202033-20 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1999 and 2020, burning about 80 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/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresBradley Volunteer Fire DepartmentCRABTREE
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWOOKEY
8 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
1 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCLARK
6 July 2020Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLYNDA STERN CONTROLLED
6 July 2020Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEVAN FLETCHER
30 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use7.3 acresWaubay National Wildlife RefugePOPPEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 21 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1995HailGarden City$5,000Hail broke windows and caused undetermined crop damage.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Garden City-The tornado touched down quickly on the southern edge of the|farm. A barn completely lost the roof and external walls on about|two thirds of the structure. Debris from the barn was spread to|the northeast. 2x4 s were pierced vertically into the ground and|sheet metal from the barn was wrapped around trees. One|2x4 pierced through the garage attached to the house. Debris|would continue to be found about a quarter mile to the northeast,|across an open field and into the neighbor's farm yard.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindGarden City-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of sixty mph caused tree damage.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Seventy mph winds damaged some grain bins, the roof of a building, and downed many large tree branches in Garden City.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Strong winds brought down many large tree branches.
May 2022HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2017HailGarden City-no account filed
September 2010HailGarden City-no account filed
July 2010HailGarden City-no account filed
July 2009HailGarden City-no account filed
September 2005HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
July 2003HailGarden City-no account filed
September 2003HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2003HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2001HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2001HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2001HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2001HailGarden City-no account filed
May 2001HailGarden City-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
August 2000HailGarden City-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
August 1999HailGarden City-no account filed
June 1997HailGarden City-no account filed
September 1997HailGarden City-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
July 1996HailGarden City-no account filed
July 1996HailGarden City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Hillcrest Colony4.8 miles8
Elrod5.0 miles8
Silver Lake Colony6.0 miles8
Bradley9.7 miles7
Clark9.8 miles8
Julian (historical)10.3 miles8
Lily (historical)11.4 miles7
Naples13.4 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 Garden CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2685458The 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 1255196. 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.