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.
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
- Garden City Opera Houselisted 1988
Population over time
2 figuresGarden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 53 | |
| 2020 | 33 | -20 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
18 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Bradley Volunteer Fire Department | CRABTREE |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WOOKEY |
| 8 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 12 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CLARK |
| 6 July 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LYNDA STERN CONTROLLED |
| 6 July 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EVAN FLETCHER |
| 30 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.3 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | POPPEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1995 | Hail | Garden City | $5,000 | Hail broke windows and caused undetermined crop damage. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of sixty mph caused tree damage. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Seventy mph winds damaged some grain bins, the roof of a building, and downed many large tree branches in Garden City. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | Strong winds brought down many large tree branches. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Garden City | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Garden City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest Colony | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Elrod | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Silver Lake Colony | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Bradley | 9.7 miles | 7 | |
| Clark | 9.8 miles | 8 | |
| Julian (historical) | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Lily (historical) | 11.4 miles | 7 | |
| Naples | 13.4 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 Garden City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2685458 | 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 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.



