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Iroquois, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Iroquois City. It lies in ZIP code area 57353. The Survey maps it on the Iroquois quadrangle. 292 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Iroquois within Kingsbury County

On record in Iroquois

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Iroquois in 1999, burning about 2 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 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
4 April 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresIroquois Volunteer Fire DepartmentIROQUOIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury 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 Iroquois: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Evans PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iroquois in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
March 1998Thunderstorm WindIroquois$100,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindIroquois$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew power poles and wires down, and destroyed two metal sheds. The winds also caused extensive tree damage, including numerous large branches blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindIroquois$10,000Thunderstorm winds damaged shingles on a few homes and caused tree damage, including several trees blown down.
August 2004HailIroquois$5,000Large hail dented vehicles.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds brought down large trees.
June 2010Flash FloodIroquois-Heavy rain caused flash flooding of roads.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Iroquois-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees and many large branches blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2017HailIroquois-no account filed
June 2010HailIroquois-no account filed
April 2007HailIroquois-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindIroquois-no account filed
August 2005HailIroquois-no account filed
July 2002HailIroquois-no account filed
June 2001HailIroquois-no account filed
June 1999HailIroquois-no account filed
July 1997HailIroquois-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingsbury 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
Fairview (historical)6.8 miles11
Manchester6.9 miles11
Osceola7.0 miles11
Esmond8.4 miles11
Bancroft9.9 miles11
De Smet16.0 miles11
Erwin23.1 miles9
Lake Preston25.1 miles9

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 IroquoisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2257909The 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 1255781. 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.