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Hetland, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Denver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57212. The Survey maps it on the Badger quadrangle. 20 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,732 feet above sea level.

Hetland within Kingsbury County

On record in Hetland

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

Hetland fell from 46 to 20 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
201046
202020-26 (-57%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hetland between 2000 and 2016, burning about 435 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY !4 CRP
1 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionELDIE SMITH
8 April 2000Other causes1.0 acresArlington Volunteer Fire DepartmentDOUG CONVERSE
5 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDENNIS CONVERSE FIRE
13 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDM&E ROW
1 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
20 March 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionOLD CAR GUY FIRE
15 October 2008Debris and open burning50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hetland in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 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 2022Thunderstorm WindHetland-Thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn, with debris strewn across U.S. Highway 14.
June 2016HailHetland-Large hail covered the ground. Damage to young crops was suspected, but the amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHetland-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including branches blown down.
September 2007HailHetland-no account filed
May 2000HailHetland-no account filed
May 2000HailHetland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingsbury 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
Arlington5.5 miles10
Badger7.6 miles9
Lake Preston7.6 miles9
Spring Lake Colony10.3 miles9
Oldham11.1 miles9
Erwin13.5 miles9
De Smet16.7 miles11
Manchester25.7 miles11

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 HetlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2713810The 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 1265247. 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.