BlockBefore

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.

Hoven within Potter County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hoven 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.

YearPeople Change
2010406
2020379-27 (-7%)

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

6 since 1998

Regional 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 use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
19 August 2015Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 20 DITCH FIRE
26 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresHoven Volunteer Fire DepartmentBRAD SIMON FIELD
18 February 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
13 December 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresMound City Volunteer Fire DepartmentSTEVE PARSEN
30 October 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBIRD
21 October 2000Equipment and vehicle use200 acresHoven Volunteer Fire DepartmentLEROY PIERMAN GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Potter County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindHoven$5,000Thunderstorm Winds downed some trees and power lines.
August 2025HailHoven-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 2015Thunderstorm WindHoven-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2015Flash FloodHoven-Heavy rains caused the flash flooding of several roads with the gravel being washed away in places.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHoven-Sixty mph winds downed a few branches in Hoven.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Hoven-A tornado touched down briefly in Hoven heavily damaging the roof of a business along with downing several trees.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHoven-Sixty mph winds were estimated west of Hoven.
July 2011HailHoven-Golfball size hail damaged some corn.
June 2007Funnel CloudHoven-Several reports of funnel clouds were received from the public in northwest Potter county.
May 2003Flash FloodHoven-Heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches flooded many county roads in northeast Potter county.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindHoven-High winds brought down several large branches in Hoven.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindHoven-Strong thunderstorm winds and large hail broke some windows and damaged many acres of crops.
August 2025HailHoven-no account filed
May 2024HailHoven-no account filed
July 2020HailHoven-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHoven-no account filed
May 2012HailHoven-no account filed
August 2011HailHoven-no account filed
October 2007HailHoven-no account filed
June 2006HailHoven-no account filed
May 2004HailHoven-no account filed
August 2004HailHoven-no account filed
August 2004HailHoven-no account filed
June 2000HailHoven-no account filed
June 2000HailHoven-no account filed
June 2000HailHoven-no account filed
August 2000HailHoven-no account filed
August 2000HailHoven-no account filed
July 1997HailHoven-no account filed
August 1997HailHoven-no account filed
June 1997HailHoven-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Potter 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
Tolstoy9.0 miles7
Lebanon12.0 miles7
Gettysburg18.6 miles7
Gorman27.0 miles6
Forest City32.3 miles7

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 HovenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q941172The 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.