Glenham, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glenham town. It lies in ZIP code area 57631. The Survey maps it on the Glenham quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,683 feet above sea level.
On record in Glenham
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
- Molstad Lake Parklisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresGlenham grew from 105 to 112 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 | 105 | |
| 2020 | 112 | +7 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Glenham quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Mobridge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Glenham between 1999 and 2018, burning about 3,896 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 0 |
| 26 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | WEEDY |
| 21 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SPOTTY |
| 9 July 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BRIDGE |
| 6 July 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2,500 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 1804 |
| 29 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.9 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SHOE HILLS |
| 12 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 July 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MOLSTAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenham in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Tornado (EF1) | Glenham | - | The tornado tracked north-northwest over mainly open country near the city of Mobridge. This tornado initially hit a farmstead where damage was observed to a grain silo. It then tipped two semi-trailers on SD Highway 1804. The tornado destroyed an outbuilding at another farmstead located a mile south of US Highway 12. As the tornado crossed US Highway 12, it overturned a camper being pulled by a vehicle and bent a power pole. After crossing US Highway 12, the tornado tracked just west of 290th Avenue, taking down a series of six power poles that were either completely broken or severely bent before the tornado dissipated. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | A national weather service employee estimated the wind speeds between 60 and 70 mph. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | Damage to brick roof/facade on the old school building. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | Sixty-five mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | An estimated eighty mph wind destroyed a ten unit storage shed. The back wall was pushed over with metal spread downwind up to a quarter mile. The boats inside were not moved. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Glenham | - | A tornado touched downed briefly just northeast of Glenham. No damage was reported. |
| May 2018 | Flood | Glenham | - | Flooding continued through the night and through the next day across the region. Agricultural land along with many roads were flooded. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | Winds gusting to 80 mph caused some damage in and around Glenham. Part of a cattle shed was blown into some power lines which in turn downed two power poles. A pole barn was destroyed south of Glenham with part of the pole barn downing another power pole. A couple of buildings were also moved off of their foundation. Some trees and branches were also downed. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Glenham | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenham | - | 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.
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 Glenham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2303359 | 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 1255262. 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.



