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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.

Java within Walworth County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Java 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.

YearPeople Change
2010129
2020121-8 (-6%)

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

7 since 2001

Regional 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes1

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 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH
15 August 2017Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY 12
18 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
6 June 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPRING LAKE TREE
3 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCAM WAL
1 May 2001Other causes350 acresMound City Volunteer Fire DepartmentHARLAN KRAUSE
28 March 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresWalworth CountyGRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

43 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2018Flash FloodJava$3,000,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindJava$500A large maple tree was blown down.
March 2019FloodJava-Several roads were flooded in the county.
August 2019HailJava-Golf ball to baseball size hail broke home and vehicle windows.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindJava-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindJava-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJava-Seventy mph winds were estimated.
August 2012HailJava-Hail up to golfball size lasted for ten minutes.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindJava-Sixty mph winds were estimated in Java.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindJava-Many large tree branches were broken off.
May 2010Tornado (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 2010Tornado (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 2007Tornado (EF0)Java-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage reported.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Java-A tornado damaged two pole barns and broke two windows out of two vehicles. Also, some large cottonwood trees were damaged.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindJava-Winds gusting to 70 mph brought many large branches down across Java.
July 2020Funnel CloudJava-no account filed
July 2020HailJava-no account filed
July 2020HailJava-no account filed
June 2020HailJava-no account filed
August 2019HailJava-no account filed
August 2019HailJava-no account filed
June 2018HailJava-no account filed
September 2017HailJava-no account filed
September 2017HailJava-no account filed
August 2016HailJava-no account filed
June 2013HailJava-no account filed
August 2012HailJava-no account filed
August 2012HailJava-no account filed
August 2012HailJava-no account filed
May 2010HailJava-no account filed
June 2009HailJava-no account filed
August 2005HailJava-no account filed
May 2004HailJava-no account filed
May 2004HailJava-no account filed
May 2004HailJava-no account filed
August 2004HailJava-no account filed
August 2003HailJava-no account filed
June 2001HailJava-no account filed
June 2001HailJava-no account filed
August 2000HailJava-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindJava-no account filed
June 1997HailJava-no account filed
September 1995HailJava-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Selby7.7 miles7
Lowry13.9 miles7
Sitka15.9 miles7
Akaska17.1 miles7
Glenham20.5 miles7
Mobridge28.8 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 JavaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2089134The 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.