Hub City, South Dakota
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57004. The Survey maps it on the Hub City quadrangle.
On record in Hub City
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
- Anderson Homesteadlisted 1978
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1898 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1901 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000
- 1907 USGS Elk Point quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Hub City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hub City between 1998 and 2020, burning about 146 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department | HUOT |
| 4 July 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RICHLAND |
| 1 May 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 5 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Alcester Volunteer Fire Department | WEST INTERSTATE |
| 23 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NONE |
| 4 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Vermillion Volunteer Fire Department | BURBACH |
| 13 December 1998 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Lake Preston Volunteer Fire Department | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alcester Volunteer Fire Department | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hub City in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hub City | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage and blew shingles off a roof. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Hub City | - | A significant accumulation of pea to dime size hail occurred. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hub City | - | Thunderstorm winds snapped several large trees. |
| June 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Hub City | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Hub City | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Hub City | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Hub City | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Hub City | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hub City | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Hub City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshalltown (historical) | 0.9 miles | 18 | |
| Dalesburg | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Clay Point | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Bloomingdale | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Lodi | 4.7 miles | 18 | |
| Komstad (historical) | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Greenfield | 5.9 miles | 19 | |
| Westreville | 6.6 miles | 9 |
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 Hub City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110413856 | 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 1255697. 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.







