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Humboldt, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Humboldt town. It lies in ZIP code area 57035. The Survey maps it on the Humboldt quadrangle. 579 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,703 feet above sea level.

Humboldt within Minnehaha County

Population over time

2 figures

Humboldt fell from 589 to 579 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
2010589
2020579-10 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

43 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Humboldt between 2009 and 2020, burning about 228 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresMinnehaha CountyGRASS
5 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE
29 August 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE
6 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCONTROLLED
31 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minnehaha County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Humboldt: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hillcrest PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Minnehaha County

Storms near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humboldt in 24 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 15 hail, 8 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2021Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$500,000Thunderstorm winds damaged grain elevator bins. Property damage costs are a rough estimate.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindHumboldt$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees up to two feet in diameter.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindHumboldt-Multiple trees were damaged by thunderstorm winds, along with several utility trailers.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHumboldt-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one large branch blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHumboldt-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including at least one large tree uprooted.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Humboldt-A tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHumboldt-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including one inch diameter limbs blown down.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHumboldt-Thunderstorm winds caused tree and crop damage. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHumboldt-Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree, power line, and crop damage. At least one large tree was uprooted, and numerous 3 to 4 inch diameter limbs were blown down.
June 2014HailHumboldt-no account filed
May 2005HailHumboldt-no account filed
September 2005HailHumboldt-no account filed
September 2005HailHumboldt-no account filed
November 2005HailHumboldt-no account filed
May 2004HailHumboldt-no account filed
May 2004HailHumboldt-no account filed
May 2004HailHumboldt-no account filed
May 2004HailHumboldt-no account filed
July 2004HailHumboldt-no account filed
July 2004HailHumboldt-no account filed
July 2003HailHumboldt-no account filed
May 2002HailHumboldt-no account filed
August 2001HailHumboldt-no account filed
September 1997HailHumboldt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Minnehaha 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
Pumpkin Center7.1 miles6
Hartford7.1 miles8
Lyons12.2 miles8
Colton12.4 miles7
West Acres Development13.0 miles9
Ellis Corner13.2 miles9
Country Acres14.0 miles8
Crooks14.0 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 HumboldtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2340835The 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 1255710. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.