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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.

Glenham within Walworth County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Glenham 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.

YearPeople Change
2010105
2020112+7 (+7%)

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

24 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression0
26 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWEEDY
21 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPOTTY
9 July 2015Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRIDGE
6 July 2006Railroad operations and maintenance2,500 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression1804
29 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.9 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSHOE HILLS
12 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
1 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMOLSTAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025Tornado (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 2024Thunderstorm WindGlenham-A national weather service employee estimated the wind speeds between 60 and 70 mph.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindGlenham-Damage to brick roof/facade on the old school building.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGlenham-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGlenham-Sixty-five mph winds were estimated.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGlenham-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 2018Tornado (EF0)Glenham-A tornado touched downed briefly just northeast of Glenham. No damage was reported.
May 2018FloodGlenham-Flooding continued through the night and through the next day across the region. Agricultural land along with many roads were flooded.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGlenham-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 2022HailGlenham-no account filed
July 2021HailGlenham-no account filed
August 2021HailGlenham-no account filed
July 2020HailGlenham-no account filed
July 2019HailGlenham-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGlenham-no account filed
June 2018HailGlenham-no account filed
August 2012HailGlenham-no account filed
August 2012HailGlenham-no account filed
August 2012HailGlenham-no account filed
August 2012HailGlenham-no account filed
August 2011HailGlenham-no account filed
August 2008HailGlenham-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGlenham-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGlenham-no account filed
July 2001HailGlenham-no account filed
August 1998HailGlenham-no account filed
July 1996HailGlenham-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGlenham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Sitka4.6 miles7
Mobridge8.3 miles8
Selby12.8 miles7
Akaska16.0 miles7
Java20.5 miles7
Lowry21.4 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 GlenhamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2303359The 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.