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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.

Grenville within Day County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Grenville 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.

YearPeople Change
201054
202048-6 (-11%)

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

8 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2

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 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.4 acresWaubay National Wildlife RefugeG1B
7 May 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWaubay National Wildlife RefugeMAIL BOX
21 May 2008Debris and open burning307 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
20 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRENVILLE FIRE
10 May 2013Debris and open burning1.3 acresWaubay National Wildlife RefugeWHITE
1 May 1999Debris and open burning30 acresWaubay National Wildlife RefugeOPITZ
14 April 2003Arson/incendiarism20 acresSisseton AgencyNE ENEMY S
13 November 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresSisseton AgencyENSWIM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Day County

Storms near this place

34 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025HailGrenville-A trained spotter reports hail to the size of half-dollars. Their vehicles received numerous dents, along with a broken windshield.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Tree branches were downed by severe winds.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Straight-line winds damaged the side of a farm building by removing a few panels.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Estimated seventy mph winds flipped a pontoon and downed a tree at Pickerel Lake.
July 2015Tornado (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 2011Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Sixty mph winds flipped a boat over along with downing many branches.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Eighty mph winds downed several trees.
June 2009HailGrenville-A large amount of hail had fallen covering the roads and drifting in places.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Many large trees were downed at Pickeral Lake State Park.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Winds to 80 mph downed several trees and rolled and destroyed a 14 by 58 foot mobile home.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Winds over 70 mph brought down several large trees north of Grenville.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Many large tree branches were downed by the high winds.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGrenville-High winds brought several large branches down.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGrenville-Winds to 70 mph blew several trees down near Pickeral Lake.
July 1998Tornado (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 2025HailGrenville-no account filed
July 2023HailGrenville-no account filed
August 2017HailGrenville-no account filed
July 2017HailGrenville-no account filed
August 2016HailGrenville-no account filed
September 2014HailGrenville-no account filed
June 2013HailGrenville-no account filed
August 2013HailGrenville-no account filed
June 2012HailGrenville-no account filed
April 2009HailGrenville-no account filed
July 2008HailGrenville-no account filed
June 2007HailGrenville-no account filed
August 2006HailGrenville-no account filed
August 2006HailGrenville-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGrenville-no account filed
July 2003HailGrenville-no account filed
July 2001HailGrenville-no account filed
August 1999HailGrenville-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Grenville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Day 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
Roslyn5.5 miles7
Enemy Swim6.0 miles7
Waubay10.4 miles7
Webster11.5 miles7
Holmquist16.3 miles7
Bristol20.6 miles7
Butler22.2 miles7
Pierpont23.3 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 GrenvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2319648The 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.