Grenville, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grenville town. It lies in ZIP code area 57239. The Survey maps it on the Roslyn quadrangle. 48 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,864 feet above sea level.
On record in Grenville
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
Zoar Norwegian Lutheran Churchlisted 1990
Population over time
2 figuresGrenville fell from 54 to 48 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 | 54 | |
| 2020 | 48 | -6 (-11%) |
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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Roslyn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Grenville between 1993 and 2013, burning about 387 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 July 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.4 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | G1B |
| 7 May 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | MAIL BOX |
| 21 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 307 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 20 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GRENVILLE FIRE |
| 10 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | WHITE |
| 1 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | OPITZ |
| 14 April 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Sisseton Agency | NE ENEMY S |
| 13 November 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 acres | Sisseton Agency | ENSWIM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grenville in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 19 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Grenville | - | A trained spotter reports hail to the size of half-dollars. Their vehicles received numerous dents, along with a broken windshield. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Tree branches were downed by severe winds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Straight-line winds damaged the side of a farm building by removing a few panels. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Estimated seventy mph winds flipped a pontoon and downed a tree at Pickerel Lake. |
| July 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Grenville | - | A tornado touched down southeast of Grenville damaging several trees in a couple shelter belts along with some corn. Near the end of its path, a horse trailer was rolled, a barn suffered significant roof damage, and numerous branches were downed. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Sixty mph winds flipped a boat over along with downing many branches. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Eighty mph winds downed several trees. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Grenville | - | A large amount of hail had fallen covering the roads and drifting in places. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Many large trees were downed at Pickeral Lake State Park. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Winds to 80 mph downed several trees and rolled and destroyed a 14 by 58 foot mobile home. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Winds over 70 mph brought down several large trees north of Grenville. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Many large tree branches were downed by the high winds. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | High winds brought several large branches down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | Winds to 70 mph blew several trees down near Pickeral Lake. |
| July 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Grenville | - | A landspout tornado touched down northeast of Grenville near Enemy Swim Lake. The tornado pulled up two fence posts, some water, and some hay was spread around as it moved southeast. Path length and width were estimated. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Grenville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Grenville | - | 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 Grenville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2319648 | 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 1255370. 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.



