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.
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
Herrick Elevatorlisted 2003
Herrick Public Schoollisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresHerrick 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 105 | |
| 2020 | 74 | -31 (-30%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Herrick quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Winner quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Rosebud Agency | BURKE |
| 4 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Gregory County | WATERBURY |
| 26 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Gregory County | SIEH |
| 29 December 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NELSON FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosebud Sioux Gravel Pit 1121 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
25 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Hail | Herrick | 1 hurt, $100,000 | Large 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 2002 | Tornado (F2) | Herrick | $1,000,000 | A 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines and poles, and caused tree damage. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 62 mph were measured by a personal weather station. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Herrick | - | Hail fell for several minutes, but was only briefly nickel to quarter size. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Herrick | - | Dime to quarter-sized hail fell near Herrick. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 83 mph were measured by personal weather station KSDHERRI4. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured on a personal weather station 6 miles north-northeast of Herrick. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Herrick | - | Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Herrick | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | 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 2009 | Hail | Herrick | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Herrick | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few 4 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Herrick | - | Large hail covered the ground. The hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Herrick | - | Thunderstorm winds caused damage to trees and power lines. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Herrick | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Herrick | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Herrick | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Herrick | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Herrick | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Herrick | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Herrick | - | 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 Herrick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2148301 | 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 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.




