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Herrick, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Herrick town. It lies in ZIP code area 57538. The Survey maps it on the Herrick quadrangle. 74 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,162 feet above sea level.

Herrick within Gregory County

On record in Herrick

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Herrick fell from 105 to 74 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
202074-31 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Herrick between 1996 and 2013, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 May 1996Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresRosebud AgencyBURKE
4 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGregory CountyWATERBURY
26 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresGregory CountySIEH
29 December 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNELSON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gregory 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 Herrick: 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
Rosebud Sioux Gravel Pit 1121Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gregory County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herrick in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2002HailHerrick1 hurt, $100,000Large hail, driven by severe winds, broke windows in vehicles and buildings, and cause other damage to vehicles. A man was slightly injured when he was hit by hail while sitting in his pickup, after the hail had broken the window. Some area crops, already described to be in poor shape, were totally destroyed by the wind driven hail. The amount of crop damage was not known. The hail accumulated up to six inches, with drifts to two feet.
August 2002Tornado (F2)Herrick$1,000,000A tornado destroyed a church, a county highway shop, several garages, several small sheds, a mobile home, a camper, and a ten thousand bushel silo. The church was ripped from its foundation, with debris and contents blown over a wide area. Tree damage includes uprooted trees, and power lines were blown down. A resulting power outage lasted for several hours. Windows in many homes and some businesses were broken. The Herrick Honey House was severely damaged, and a honey truck was tipped over. Holes were punched in the walls of some houses by flying debris.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindHerrick$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and poles, and caused tree damage.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 62 mph were measured by a personal weather station.
June 2025HailHerrick-Hail fell for several minutes, but was only briefly nickel to quarter size.
June 2025HailHerrick-Dime to quarter-sized hail fell near Herrick.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 83 mph were measured by personal weather station KSDHERRI4.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured on a personal weather station 6 miles north-northeast of Herrick.
September 2021HailHerrick-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Herrick-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 5 inch diameter branches blown down. The winds also blew a tin part of a roof off a house, and blew a hay bale across a road.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by large hail, and added to crop damage caused by the hail.
August 2009HailHerrick-Large hail caused damage to vehicles, siding, roofs, and crops. The amount of local; damage was not known; the hail being part of a long swath that affected part of the county. The hail was accompanied by wind gusts up to 60 mph.
May 2008HailHerrick-Large hail covered the ground.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few 4 inch diameter branches blown down.
June 2003HailHerrick-Large hail covered the ground. The hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHerrick-Thunderstorm winds caused damage to trees and power lines.
June 2025HailHerrick-no account filed
July 2024HailHerrick-no account filed
May 2012HailHerrick-no account filed
August 2010HailHerrick-no account filed
May 2006HailHerrick-no account filed
July 2005HailHerrick-no account filed
August 1996HailHerrick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gregory 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
Saint Charles5.3 miles8
Burke7.2 miles8
Lucas12.2 miles9
Bonesteel13.2 miles9
Carlock13.3 miles8
Gregory15.2 miles8
Fairfax17.0 miles9
Dallas19.3 miles8

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 HerrickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2148301The 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 1255524. 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.