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Interior, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Interior Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57750. The Survey maps it on the Interior quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,382 feet above sea level.

Interior within Jackson County

On record in Interior

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

Interior fell from 94 to 65 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
201094
202065-29 (-31%)

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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Interior between 1994 and 2017, burning about 144 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 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
Natural8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBadlands National ParkSOUTHGATE2
4 September 2016Natural1.4 acresNebraska National ForestINTERIOR
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionWELL
12 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionROUND
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreNebraska National Forestnot named
6 August 2004Smokingunder an acreBadlands National ParkDUSTBOWL
19 August 2003Naturalunder an acreBadlands National ParkDEADTREE
17 August 2006Natural5.0 acresPine Ridge AgencyHARVEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

60 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Interior in 84 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 40 hail, 32 thunderstorm wind, 10 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 2007Heavy RainInterior$67,000Almost four inches of rain (3.95) fell in six hours. Water briefly covered highway 44 south of the White River when a culvert plugged up with debris.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindInterior$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts snapped 5 power poles and a flag pole and blew a horse trailer down a hill.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindInterior$10,000Airplane hanger damaged.
March 2011FloodInterior$5,000Flooding occurred along the White River. At least two homes were surrounded by water and several oubuildings were flooded. The river gage on the SD Highway 44 bridge southeast of Interior crested at 15.5 feet, or 1.5 feet above flood stage. The river gage on the SD Highway 73 bridge south of Kadoka crested at 13.7 feet, or 0.7 feet above flood stage.
July 2011Flash FloodInterior$5,000Water flowed over stock dams and small streams flooded south of Potato Creek.
June 2012HailInterior$5,000no account filed
June 1996HailInterior$1,500no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindInterior-Spotter report an estimated wind gust.
May 2023FloodInterior-Minor flooding of agricultural land along the White River occurred. The river gage crested at 15.1 feet on May 12 at 1115 PM MDT.
June 2022HailInterior-Hail was mostly golf ball size or smaller.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindInterior-One inch diameter tree branches were broken and shingles blown off a house.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindInterior-Three inch diameter tree branches were broken and power poles were downed by the wind.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindInterior-The highest wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2019FloodInterior-Minor flooding of agricultural land occurred along the White River south of Kadoka. The river crested at 14.25 feet (flood stage of 13 feet) on May 29.
July 2019FloodInterior-Runoff from heavy rain caused minor flooding of agricultural land along the White River from the Badlands to south of Kadoka. River gauges along the White River near Interior at Highway 44 and south of Kadoka on Highway 73 crested slightly over flood stage on July 5.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2018FloodInterior-Minor flooding of agricultural land occurred along the White River. The river gauge south of Kadoka along SD Highway 73 crested at 14.0 feet or 1.0 foot above flood stage.
July 2016FloodInterior-Minor flooding was recorded along the White River. The river rose over ten feet and flow increased from 50 cubic feet per second (cfs) to 11,900 cfs within six hours. The river gauge on the White River near Interior crested at a height about a half foot above flood stage.
May 2015FloodInterior-Minor flooding of agricultural land occurred along the White River.
May 2015FloodInterior-Highway 44 and a campground near Interior were flooded due to runoff from more than two inches of rain and high water in the White River.
June 2015FloodInterior-Agricultural land along the White River experienced minor flooding. Peak flows on the White River near Interior were over 11,000 cubic feet per second.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindInterior-Spotters estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindInterior-Tree branches were blown down by the wind.
June 2011HailInterior-Nickel sized hail fell at Cedar Pass in Badlands National Park.
March 2010FloodInterior-Minor flooding occurred along the White River as flood waters reached the shoulder of South Dakota Highway 44. The river gage south of Interior along Highway 44 crested at 15.44 feet or 1.44 feet above flood stage.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindInterior-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindInterior-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindInterior-Large tree branches were blown down and tents were tipped over at a campground.
May 2006HailInterior-Hail damaged wheat fields.
August 2006HailInterior-Small hail fell for 30 minutes.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindInterior-A large tree was uprooted.
September 2022HailInterior-no account filed
May 2020HailInterior-no account filed
June 2019HailInterior-no account filed
August 2018HailInterior-no account filed
June 2018HailInterior-no account filed
October 2016Thunderstorm WindInterior-no account filed
September 2014HailInterior-no account filed
June 2014HailInterior-no account filed
May 2013HailInterior-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindInterior-no account filed
June 2013HailInterior-no account filed
May 2012HailInterior-no account filed
May 2012HailInterior-no account filed
June 2011HailInterior-no account filed
May 2011HailInterior-no account filed
July 2009HailInterior-no account filed
March 2007HailInterior-no account filed
May 2007HailInterior-no account filed
June 2007HailInterior-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindInterior-no account filed
June 2007HailInterior-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Cactus Flat8.9 miles6
Potato Creek13.3 miles6
Weta14.5 miles6
Cottonwood17.1 miles6
Sevenmile Corner18.7 miles6
Wanblee20.3 miles7
Philip Junction23.8 miles6
Hisle25.3 miles5

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 InteriorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2207853The 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 1261866. 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.