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Hosmer, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hosmer City. It lies in ZIP code area 57448. The Survey maps it on the Hosmer quadrangle. 164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,906 feet above sea level.

Hosmer within Edmunds County

Population over time

2 figures

Hosmer fell from 208 to 164 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
2010208
2020164-44 (-21%)

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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hosmer between 1998 and 2020, burning about 117 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
9 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHEYNE FIRE
28 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresHosmer Volunteer Fire DepartmentGARY BLOCKER
29 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresEureka Volunteer Fire DepartmentLEONA VILHAUER
10 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
9 June 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNONE
7 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTATE DITCH
20 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionVILHAUER
20 April 1998Debris and open burning40 acresEureka Volunteer Fire DepartmentRUDY AMAN

Every fire recorded in Edmunds County

Storms near this place

51 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hosmer in 51 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 29 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindHosmer-A trained spotter in the town of Hoven reported a number of trees down due to thunderstorm winds.
April 2022Tornado (EF0)Hosmer-A tornado briefly touchdown in an open pasture.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHosmer-The public estimated a wind gust of 70 mph.
July 2022Heavy RainHosmer-A trained spotter estimated 6 to 6.5 inches of rainfall.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2014Flash FloodHosmer-Very heavy rains of over 3 inches resulted in water flowing out of the fields and over a county road east of Hosmer.
July 2012HailHosmer-Severe winds along with quarter hail damaged a skylight, fence, along with causing some crop damage.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Seventy mph winds along with large hail damaged a skylight, fence, along with some crops.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Winds were estimated at 60 mph by a trained spotter.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Eighty mph winds blew down a 46 by 100 foot quonset with tin strewn over a quarter mile. Several trees were also uprooted in Hosmer.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Large branches were downed in Hosmer.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHosmer-A wall of a small building was blown in by the high winds.
August 2006Flash FloodHosmer-Heavy rains flooded several county roads, ditches, and fields southwest of Hosmer.
August 2004Flash FloodHosmer-Heavy rains caused flooding of numerous county roads in the Hosmer area.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Eighty mph winds brought down several trees south of Hosmer.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHosmer-Sixty mph winds brought down many large tree branches in Hosmer.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHosmer-no account filed
July 2019HailHosmer-no account filed
July 2019HailHosmer-no account filed
July 2019HailHosmer-no account filed
September 2017HailHosmer-no account filed
September 2017HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2016HailHosmer-no account filed
July 2015HailHosmer-no account filed
June 2014HailHosmer-no account filed
May 2012HailHosmer-no account filed
May 2012HailHosmer-no account filed
May 2010HailHosmer-no account filed
June 2009HailHosmer-no account filed
June 2009HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2008HailHosmer-no account filed
June 2006HailHosmer-no account filed
June 2006HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2006HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2006HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2006HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2004HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2004HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2002HailHosmer-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHosmer-no account filed
August 2000HailHosmer-no account filed
August 2000HailHosmer-no account filed
June 1999HailHosmer-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindHosmer-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHosmer-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindHosmer-no account filed
May 1997Thunderstorm WindHosmer-no account filed
June 1997HailHosmer-no account filed
June 1997HailHosmer-no account filed
September 1995HailHosmer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmunds 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
Gretna9.1 miles7
Roscoe11.5 miles7
Bowdle12.9 miles7
Beebe17.3 miles7
Loyalton22.7 miles7
Plainview Colony24.8 miles7
Ipswich25.4 miles7
Deerfield Colony30.3 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 HosmerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2442118The 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 1255678. 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.