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Hillsview, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hillsview town. It lies in ZIP code area 57437. The Survey maps it on the Hillsview quadrangle. 2 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,850 feet above sea level.

Hillsview within McPherson County

Population over time

10 figures

Hillsview fell from 101 to 2 between 1930 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
1930101
1940160+59 (+58%)
195068-92 (-58%)
196044-24 (-35%)
197019-25 (-57%)
19809-10 (-53%)
19904-5 (-56%)
20003-1 (-25%)
201030 (0%)
20202-1 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Hillsview between 1998 and 2015, burning about 301 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning4

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
8 September 2010Natural10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEARL MEHLHOFF
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionAMAN FIRE
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTODD RAUL
4 August 2001Natural5.0 acresEureka Volunteer Fire DepartmentCLETUS IMBERL
30 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
18 August 2005Natural5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
17 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDALE DOCKTER
15 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHILLSVIEW

Every fire recorded in McPherson County

Storms near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsview in 40 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 26 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHillsview-The public relayed through Facebook that they estimated the thunderstorm wind gusts at around 60 mph.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindHillsview-A member of the public estimates thunderstorm winds reached approximately 60 mph.
August 2023HailHillsview-Hail to the size of quarters combined with wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph resulted in significant crop damage 2 mines north northeast of Hillsview.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHillsview-The report was relayed via social media.
July 2022Heavy RainHillsview-The public reported an estimated rainfall amount of 6 inches.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHillsview-Estimated 70 mph winds took all or part of the roofs off of several sheds along with tipping over a grain bin auger.
August 2016HailHillsview-Quarter size hail left dents in the vehicle.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHillsview-Eighty mph winds caused extensive damage to a pole barn along with destroying an outbuilding.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHillsview-Eighty mph winds caused extensive damage to a large grain bin.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHillsview-Many large tree branches were downed by seventy mph winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHillsview-no account filed
August 2025Funnel CloudHillsview-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHillsview-no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHillsview-no account filed
July 2023HailHillsview-no account filed
July 2023HailHillsview-no account filed
July 2022HailHillsview-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHillsview-no account filed
July 2019HailHillsview-no account filed
September 2018HailHillsview-no account filed
May 2018HailHillsview-no account filed
May 2018HailHillsview-no account filed
September 2017HailHillsview-no account filed
August 2016HailHillsview-no account filed
June 2014HailHillsview-no account filed
May 2012HailHillsview-no account filed
June 2012HailHillsview-no account filed
June 2009HailHillsview-no account filed
June 2009HailHillsview-no account filed
August 2009HailHillsview-no account filed
August 2009HailHillsview-no account filed
June 2007HailHillsview-no account filed
June 2006HailHillsview-no account filed
August 2006HailHillsview-no account filed
August 2004HailHillsview-no account filed
July 2003HailHillsview-no account filed
August 2003HailHillsview-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHillsview-no account filed
June 1997HailHillsview-no account filed
June 1997HailHillsview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McPherson 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
Eureka7.9 miles7
Greenway18.7 miles7
Madra20.1 miles7
Long Lake22.9 miles7
Leola33.0 miles8
Long Lake Colony39.4 miles8
Spring Creek Colony39.8 miles8
Grassland Colony40.6 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 HillsviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3239729The 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 1261018. 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.