BlockHolmquist, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kidder Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57274. The Survey maps it on the Bristol East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bristol East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Holmquist between 2005 and 2020, burning about 65 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TOM ANDERSON |
| 16 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Day County | HANSMEIER |
| 3 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 31 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holmquist in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holmquist | - | Ninety mph winds or higher downed numerous trees with a storage shed completely destroyed. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holmquist | - | Several power poles were downed by an estimated ninety mph winds. |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Holmquist | - | A tornado briefly occurred to the southeast of Holmquist. The tornado destroyed a farm shed, throwing much of the debris about 150 yards to the north. The tornado tracked north through a shelter belt, snapping and uprooting numerous trees before dissipating shortly after entering a farm field. |
| June 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Holmquist | - | A tornado touched down near a lake west of Webster traveling northeast for nearly two miles over open land. Some large tree branches were downed in a tree grove. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holmquist | - | Sixty mph winds blew over and damaged a calf shelter and downed many large tree branches. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Holmquist | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holmquist | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Holmquist | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Holmquist | - | 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 Holmquist | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709378 | 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 1255616. 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.