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Ipswich, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ipswich City. It lies in ZIP code area 57451. The Survey maps it on the Ipswich quadrangle. 928 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,535 feet above sea level.

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Ipswich within Edmunds County

On record in Ipswich

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ipswich fell from 954 to 928 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
2010954
2020928-26 (-3%)

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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Ipswich between 1998 and 2020, burning about 604 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSYLTE
18 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresEdmunds CountyDOC MEYER RR
13 July 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCRAVEN RAILROAD
5 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTDO
5 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCRP
27 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPENFIELD
23 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
29 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBEYERS LAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmunds County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ipswich: 2 past producers. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ipswich Sand and Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Edmunds County

Storms near this place

60 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ipswich in 63 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 39 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindIpswich-The public reported an estimated wind gust of 60 mph in Ipswich.
August 2021HailIpswich-A hail swath determined by high resolution satellite imagery along with surface reports occurred from Edmunds County east across southern Brown into Day Counties. The largest hail size was baseball size. The scar dimensions covered approximately 70 square miles in Edmunds County. The start location was approximately 5 miles southwest of Ipswich, and it continued in an east southeast orientation to the Brown County line approximately 5 miles south of Mina Lake. Drone and photo evidence of damage in this area suggest substantial to total crop losses.
August 2021HailIpswich-Golf ball sized hail broke ten windows at a residence.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindIpswich-A tree was toppled over by estimated seventy mph winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindIpswich-A large tree was downed in Ipswich which damaged the fence it fell upon. Some other branches were also downed in town.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Seventy-five mph winds brought many trees down along with many large branches throughout Ipswich.
July 2015Flash FloodIpswich-Heavy rains resulted in water flowing over South Dakota State Highway 45 just south of Ipswich.
August 2014Flash FloodIpswich-Very heavy rains resulted in water over County Road 13 north of Ipswich.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindIpswich-A ninety mph wind was measured at Pembrook Colony.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Eighty mph winds downed many trees in Ipswich.
June 2006HailIpswich-Hail from penny to golfball size fell for almost 45 minutes.
June 2006Flash FloodIpswich-Heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches flooded several roads and fields 10 miles north of Ipswich.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Ipswich-A tornado touched down briefly north of Ipswich causing no damage.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Many branches were downed in Ipswich.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindIpswich-High winds to 70 mph rolled round haybales about 50 feet, blew a well cover onto a car, and blew a calf shelter nearly 50 feet
July 1999HailIpswich-Golfball size hail and high winds destroyed hundreds of acres of crops on a farm southeast of Ipswich.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindIpswich-Winds gusting to 80 mph uprooted and damaged several trees. Also, many power and cable lines were downed along with some buildings being damaged.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 2022HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2022HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2019HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2016HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2016HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2010HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2009HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2009HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2009HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2006HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2005HailIpswich-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F0)Ipswich-no account filed
May 2004Tornado (F0)Ipswich-no account filed
May 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2004HailIpswich-no account filed
September 2003HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2003HailIpswich-no account filed
August 2002HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2001HailIpswich-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 1999HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1999HailIpswich-no account filed
June 1998HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1998HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1998HailIpswich-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindIpswich-no account filed
May 1996HailIpswich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmunds 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
Craven Corner5.5 miles8
Craven5.5 miles8
Beebe8.8 miles7
Plainview Colony9.5 miles7
Powell10.8 miles7
Deerfield Colony12.0 miles8
Mina14.4 miles8
Roscoe16.4 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 IpswichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2676656The 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 1255770. 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.