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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.

Hillhead within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

2 since 2008

Regional 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 burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 May 2008Debris and open burning120 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
9 January 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLENTSCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

32 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994HailHillhead$5,000no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillhead-Estimated ninety mph winds broke off many trees along with collapsing a barn.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillhead-Ninety mph winds brought down nine power poles.
June 2013Flash FloodHillhead-The road west of Veblen had water flowing over it with one section covered up to 100 feet.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2015HailHillhead-no account filed
July 2015HailHillhead-no account filed
July 2015HailHillhead-no account filed
July 2015HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2012HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2012HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2012HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2012HailHillhead-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
June 2008HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed
July 2008HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2006HailHillhead-no account filed
August 2006HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2005HailHillhead-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHillhead-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Veblen5.9 miles6
Marlow5.9 miles7
Lake City7.7 miles6
Clear Lake9.5 miles6
Eden15.1 miles6
Kidder17.4 miles7
Britton19.3 miles7
Westwood Colony21.0 miles7

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 HillheadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709372The 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.