Hillhead, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in La Belle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57270. The Survey maps it on the Hillhead quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Hillhead quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hillhead between 2008 and 2012, burning about 140 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 120 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 9 January 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LENTSCH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillhead in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Hail | Hillhead | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | Estimated ninety mph winds broke off many trees along with collapsing a barn. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | Ninety mph winds brought down nine power poles. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Hillhead | - | The road west of Veblen had water flowing over it with one section covered up to 100 feet. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Hillhead | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillhead | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veblen | 5.9 miles | 6 | |
| Marlow | 5.9 miles | 7 | |
| Lake City | 7.7 miles | 6 | |
| Clear Lake | 9.5 miles | 6 | |
| Eden | 15.1 miles | 6 | |
| Kidder | 17.4 miles | 7 | |
| Britton | 19.3 miles | 7 | |
| Westwood Colony | 21.0 miles | 7 |
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 Hillhead | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709372 | 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 1265653. 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.



