Hoven, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hoven town. It lies in ZIP code area 57450. The Survey maps it on the Hoven quadrangle. 379 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,906 feet above sea level.
On record in Hoven
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- St. Bernard's Catholic Churchlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresHoven fell from 406 to 379 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 | 406 | |
| 2020 | 379 | -27 (-7%) |
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
- 1974 USGS Hoven quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Gettysburg quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hoven between 1998 and 2015, burning about 204 acres in total. 1 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2015 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HWY 20 DITCH FIRE |
| 26 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Hoven Volunteer Fire Department | BRAD SIMON FIELD |
| 18 February 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 13 December 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Mound City Volunteer Fire Department | STEVE PARSEN |
| 30 October 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BIRD |
| 21 October 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Hoven Volunteer Fire Department | LEROY PIERMAN GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hoven in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoven | $5,000 | Thunderstorm Winds downed some trees and power lines. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Hoven | - | Hail up to three inches in diameter was observed in Hoven. Several other reports of hail between 1.00 and 2.75 inches were received. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoven | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Hoven | - | Heavy rains caused the flash flooding of several roads with the gravel being washed away in places. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoven | - | Sixty mph winds downed a few branches in Hoven. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Hoven | - | A tornado touched down briefly in Hoven heavily damaging the roof of a business along with downing several trees. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoven | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated west of Hoven. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Hoven | - | Golfball size hail damaged some corn. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Hoven | - | Several reports of funnel clouds were received from the public in northwest Potter county. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Hoven | - | Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches flooded many county roads in northeast Potter county. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoven | - | High winds brought down several large branches in Hoven. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoven | - | Strong thunderstorm winds and large hail broke some windows and damaged many acres of crops. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Hoven | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Hoven | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tolstoy | 9.0 miles | 7 | |
| Lebanon | 12.0 miles | 7 | |
| Gettysburg | 18.6 miles | 7 | |
| Gorman | 27.0 miles | 6 | |
| Forest City | 32.3 miles | 7 |
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 Hoven | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q941172 | 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 1255689. 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.



