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Harrold, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Harrold town. It lies in ZIP code area 57536. The Survey maps it on the Harrold quadrangle. 101 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,795 feet above sea level.

Harrold within Hughes County

On record in Harrold

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

Harrold fell from 124 to 101 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
2010124
2020101-23 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Harrold between 2001 and 2015, burning about 876 acres in total. None 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 May 2001Railroad operations and maintenance100 acresHarrold Volunteer Fire DepartmentRAILROAD
26 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTAYLOR FIRE
11 October 2015Equipment and vehicle use775 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBECKLER WILD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Hughes County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harrold: 1 producer. 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
Reynolds PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hughes County

Storms near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrold in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 29 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2016HailHarrold-Baseball size hail damaged several vehicles.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHarrold-Estimated seventy mph winds damaged a yield sign, tipped over a 55 gallon drum, and damaged a door and wall of a building along with a fruit tree.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHarrold-Sixty mph winds were estimated in Harrold.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindHarrold-A horse trailer carrying two horses was pushed to the side by the high winds in southeast Hughes county. The leaning horse trailer caused the pickup pulling it to lift off the ground. The horse trailer hit the side of the pickup and damaged it.
August 2009HailHarrold-Nickel size hail falling for several minutes piled up to 6 to 8 inches deep.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrold-Winds near seventy mph brought some large branches down in Harrold.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHarrold-Eighty mph winds or higher along with large hail damaged nearly every home and the school in Harrold from roofs to siding along with many broken windows. Also, several power poles were snapped off, branches and trees were downed, and a flag pole was bent over.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHarrold-Many large trees were downed by the thunderstorm winds.
July 2025HailHarrold-no account filed
August 2022HailHarrold-no account filed
July 2020HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2017HailHarrold-no account filed
July 2014HailHarrold-no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHarrold-no account filed
August 2012HailHarrold-no account filed
September 2012HailHarrold-no account filed
July 2011HailHarrold-no account filed
August 2009HailHarrold-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrold-no account filed
June 2008HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrold-no account filed
June 2007HailHarrold-no account filed
May 2006HailHarrold-no account filed
August 2006HailHarrold-no account filed
August 2006HailHarrold-no account filed
May 2005HailHarrold-no account filed
May 2004HailHarrold-no account filed
July 2004HailHarrold-no account filed
August 2004HailHarrold-no account filed
August 2004HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2003HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2003HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2003HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2002HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHarrold-no account filed
June 2002HailHarrold-no account filed
July 2002HailHarrold-no account filed
June 2002HailHarrold-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindHarrold-no account filed
July 1997HailHarrold-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hughes 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
Blunt13.4 miles8
Canning17.9 miles10
De Grey19.0 miles7
Rousseau22.7 miles10
Alto24.6 miles10
Gray Goose32.4 miles6
Pierre34.2 miles8
Oahe42.2 miles9

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 HarroldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964522The 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 1255449. 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.