Java, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Walworth unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57452. The Survey maps it on the Java quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,096 feet above sea level.
On record in Java
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
- Java Depotlisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresJava fell from 129 to 121 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 129 | |
| 2020 | 121 | -8 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Java quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Java between 2001 and 2018, burning about 401 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITCH |
| 15 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HWY 12 |
| 18 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 6 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SPRING LAKE TREE |
| 3 June 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CAM WAL |
| 1 May 2001 | Other causes | 350 acres | Mound City Volunteer Fire Department | HARLAN KRAUSE |
| 28 March 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Walworth County | GRASS FIRE |
Storms near this place
43 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Java in 43 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 28 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2018 | Flash Flood | Java | $3,000,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | $500 | A large maple tree was blown down. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Java | - | Several roads were flooded in the county. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Java | - | Golf ball to baseball size hail broke home and vehicle windows. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | - | Seventy mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Java | - | Hail up to golfball size lasted for ten minutes. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated in Java. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | - | Many large tree branches were broken off. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Java | - | The second tornado touched down eight miles west of Bowdle or two miles south of Highway 12 near State Highway 47. The tornado knocked down six wooden power poles before it lifted. This is consistent with an EF1 rating with winds from 86 to 110 mph. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF2) | Java | - | The third tornado formed about four miles west of Bowdle on Highway 12. The tornado came down on a farm or formed immediately to the south of the farm. Several outbuildings were severely damaged with the residence sustaining siding and roof damage. A stock trailer was thrown about 75 yards from its initial point. Tree damage was sustained on the west side of the property with fallen trees leaning west. On the east side of the property, debris was scattered to the northeast. The damage on the farm was consistent with an EF2 rating with wind speeds ranging from 111 to 135 mph. The tornado continued moving northeast crossing into western Edmunds county where it intensified to an EF4. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Java | - | A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage reported. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Java | - | A tornado damaged two pole barns and broke two windows out of two vehicles. Also, some large cottonwood trees were damaged. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | - | Winds gusting to 70 mph brought many large branches down across Java. |
| July 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Java | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Java | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Java | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Java | - | 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.
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 Java | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2089134 | 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 1255814. 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.



