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Gayville, South Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gayville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57031. The Survey maps it on the Gayville quadrangle. 382 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.

Gayville within Yankton County

Population over time

2 figures

Gayville fell from 407 to 382 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
2010407
2020382-25 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Gayville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 64 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/undetermined16
Debris and open burning4

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
8 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMISSING TIRE
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMEDIAN I
31 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreVolin Volunteer Fire DepartmentHULT
29 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionROUND LAKE FIRE
28 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresVermillion Volunteer Fire DepartmentEMMICK
15 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 50 GRASS FIRE IN DITCH
25 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSMOKING BUTT
13 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNAUTHORIZED BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yankton County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gayville: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Knutsen QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Knutsen Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oursland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Volin Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Yankton County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gayville in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2011HailGayville$10,000Large hail dented vehicles and caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known from this hail or from earlier hail in the same afternoon.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGayville$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGayville$1,000A pine tree with a trunk diameter of six feet was downed due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGayville-A 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured by the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Gayville.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGayville-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a Road Weather Information System sensor near Gayville.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGayville-A 61 mph wind gust was measured at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Gayville.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGayville-Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 65 mph were measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD532 2 miles west-southwest of Gayville.
July 2023HailGayville-A few hailstones reached the size of nickels.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGayville-A thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD532 2 miles west-southwest of Gayville. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGayville-A thunderstorm wind gust of 63 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD532 2 miles west-southwest of Gayville.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindGayville-An extended period of thunderstorm wind gusts of 58 mph or greater was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD532 2 miles west-southwest of Gayville. A peak wind gust of 65 mph occurred at 1428CST.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGayville-A thunderstorm wind gust of 89 mph was measured by South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD532 2 miles west-southwest of Gayville. Extensive building damage was noted in Gayville.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGayville-A farm outbuilding door and wall were blown out.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGayville-Multiple pine trees were uprooted and a farm outbuilding was destroyed.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGayville-South Dakota RWIS station SD532 near Gayville measured a peak wind of 66 mph. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
August 2011HailGayville-Large hail covered the ground and caused crop damage in the area. The amount of crop damage was not known.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGayville-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several limbs blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGayville-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in a power outage. Up to 6 inch diameter branches were blown down.
July 2023HailGayville-no account filed
June 2017HailGayville-no account filed
June 2017HailGayville-no account filed
August 2016HailGayville-no account filed
August 2016HailGayville-no account filed
June 2014HailGayville-no account filed
August 2011HailGayville-no account filed
July 2009HailGayville-no account filed
July 2009HailGayville-no account filed
July 2009HailGayville-no account filed
June 2007HailGayville-no account filed
August 2007HailGayville-no account filed
April 2006HailGayville-no account filed
May 2004HailGayville-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindGayville-no account filed
May 1999HailGayville-no account filed
May 1999HailGayville-no account filed
September 1995HailGayville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Yankton 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
Volin4.8 miles10
Mission Hill6.2 miles10
Valleyview7.9 miles10
Yankton12.0 miles10
Napa Junction15.4 miles9
Mayfield15.5 miles11
Vedin Corner18.0 miles11
Utica18.3 miles9

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 GayvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2782914The 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 1255217. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.