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.
Population over time
2 figuresHosmer 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 208 | |
| 2020 | 164 | -44 (-21%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Hosmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
9 since 1998Regional 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 use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HEYNE FIRE |
| 28 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Hosmer Volunteer Fire Department | GARY BLOCKER |
| 29 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Eureka Volunteer Fire Department | LEONA VILHAUER |
| 10 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 9 June 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NONE |
| 7 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STATE DITCH |
| 20 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | VILHAUER |
| 20 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Eureka Volunteer Fire Department | RUDY AMAN |
Storms near this place
51 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | A trained spotter in the town of Hoven reported a number of trees down due to thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Hosmer | - | A tornado briefly touchdown in an open pasture. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | The public estimated a wind gust of 70 mph. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Hosmer | - | A trained spotter estimated 6 to 6.5 inches of rainfall. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Hosmer | - | Very heavy rains of over 3 inches resulted in water flowing out of the fields and over a county road east of Hosmer. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Hosmer | - | Severe winds along with quarter hail damaged a skylight, fence, along with causing some crop damage. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | Seventy mph winds along with large hail damaged a skylight, fence, along with some crops. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | Winds were estimated at 60 mph by a trained spotter. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | Large branches were downed in Hosmer. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | A wall of a small building was blown in by the high winds. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Hosmer | - | Heavy rains flooded several county roads, ditches, and fields southwest of Hosmer. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Hosmer | - | Heavy rains caused flooding of numerous county roads in the Hosmer area. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | Eighty mph winds brought down several trees south of Hosmer. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | Sixty mph winds brought down many large tree branches in Hosmer. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Hosmer | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Hosmer | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gretna | 9.1 miles | 7 | |
| Roscoe | 11.5 miles | 7 | |
| Bowdle | 12.9 miles | 7 | |
| Beebe | 17.3 miles | 7 | |
| Loyalton | 22.7 miles | 7 | |
| Plainview Colony | 24.8 miles | 7 | |
| Ipswich | 25.4 miles | 7 | |
| Deerfield Colony | 30.3 miles | 8 |
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 Hosmer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2442118 | 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 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.



