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Gettysburg, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gettysburg City. It lies in ZIP code area 57442. The Survey maps it on the Gettysburg quadrangle. 1,104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,064 feet above sea level.

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Gettysburg within Potter County

On record in Gettysburg

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 5 records

Population over time

3 figures

Gettysburg grew from 936 to 1,104 between 1910 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
1910936
20101,162
20201,104-58 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Gettysburg between 1998 and 2018, burning about 126 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPRING CREEK
12 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWALK
7 July 2006Natural12 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
26 July 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBROWNTOWN
2 June 2001Debris and open burning50 acresGettysburg Volunteer Fire DepartmentVAUGHN LARSON
16 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHUSTLER
5 April 2000Debris and open burning10 acresGettysburg Volunteer Fire DepartmentCAUGN LARSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gettysburg: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bill Kaiser PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hageman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Potter County

Storms near this place

60 of 83 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gettysburg in 83 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 39 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 5 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
April 2023FloodGettysburg$150,000no account filed
April 2019FloodGettysburg$109,500no account filed
May 1995Tornado (F0)Gettysburg$25,000Grain bin and a livestock trailer were destroyed by a narrow path tornado.
September 1999Flash FloodGettysburg$14,000no account filed
June 1995HailGettysburg$5,000Large hail destroyed six wquare miles of winter wheat and corn in northwest Potter County. On a farm in northwest Potter County, many house and farm building windows were broken. The windshields on two vehicles were also shattered from the large hail.
June 1995HailGettysburg$2,000Hail accumulated to two inches deep in places with some windows broken.
March 2019FloodGettysburg-Flooding of several township and county roads occurred.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Two grain bins were blown off their bases with two other bins receiving extensive damage.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-The sheriff on duty estimated 60 mph winds west of Gettysburg.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Damaging winds brought trees branches down and knocked power out in Gettysburg.
July 2011HailGettysburg-Golfball hail damaged corn and wheat crops along with tearing a window screen.
June 2011FloodGettysburg-Heavy rain flooded most of the roads in Gettysburg with many basements also receiving water.
June 2011Flash FloodGettysburg-Heavy rain created widespread street flooding in the town of Gettysburg.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Sixty mph winds were estimated near Gettysburg.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
June 2007Flash FloodGettysburg-Heavy rains flooded many streets in Gettysburg along with the entire park.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Gettysburg-A weak tornado touched down briefly southwest of Gettysburg in an open area causing no damage.
August 2006Flash FloodGettysburg-Heavy rains of 4 to 5 inches caused flash flooding in and around Gettysburg with many roads flooded.
August 2006Flash FloodGettysburg-Heavy rains caused flash flooding in and around Gettysburg with streets and roads flooded.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Winds over 90 mph destroyed a hanger at the airport, downed many trees, and damaged many structures in and around Gettysburg.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Gettysburg-A tornado touched down briefly southwest of Gettysburg causing no damage.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Thunderstorm winds and golfball size hail destroyed a twelve mile long and a 3 mile wide area crops including beans, wheat, corn and sunflowers.
July 1997HailGettysburg-Hail covered the ground in Gettysburg.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Damaging thunderstorm winds uprooted trees and broke off many large tree branches.
June 1995HailGettysburg-Hail accumulated to two inches deep in places with some windows broken.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Hail accumulated to two inches deep in places with some windows broken.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Seventy mph winds damaged a boat storage building at West Whitlock.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Winds of 60 mph broke off some two to three inch diameter tree branches along with some shingles blown off roofs.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-Thunderstorm Winds downed some trees and power lines.
July 2025HailGettysburg-no account filed
April 2024HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2022HailGettysburg-no account filed
August 2021HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2019FloodGettysburg-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
May 2019FloodGettysburg-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
September 2018HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
July 2017HailGettysburg-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
June 2014HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2014HailGettysburg-no account filed
July 2011Funnel CloudGettysburg-no account filed
June 2011Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
June 2011HailGettysburg-no account filed
March 2011FloodGettysburg-no account filed
April 2011FloodGettysburg-no account filed
August 2011HailGettysburg-no account filed
July 2010HailGettysburg-no account filed
September 2008Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
September 2008Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
June 2007HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2007HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2007HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGettysburg-no account filed
June 2006HailGettysburg-no account filed
June 2006HailGettysburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Potter 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
Gorman8.6 miles6
Lebanon10.6 miles7
Forest City18.3 miles7
Hoven18.6 miles7
Tolstoy22.6 miles7

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 GettysburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2176578The 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 1255235. 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.