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Johnsonville, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grange Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57268. The Survey maps it on the Estelline SE quadrangle.

Johnsonville within Deuel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Johnsonville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 66 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
21 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI29 150
2 May 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKNUTSON
12 May 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMM 153
23 April 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
18 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNELSON
10 April 2003Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionINTERSTATE 29
29 March 2003Debris and open burning25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deuel 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 Johnsonville: 1 past producer. 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

Every working recorded in Deuel County

Storms near this place

18 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsonville in 18 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2009Flash FloodJohnsonville$200,000Twenty road locations across Deuel county were washed out by the flash flooding with around 200 thousand dollars in damages.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-The Deuel County Emergency Manager reported that thunderstorm winds, estimated between 60 and 70 mph tipped a semi-truck.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-A peak wind gust of 74 mph was measured by the South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) mesonet station 4 miles east northeast of Poinsett Colony.
September 2023Tornado (EF0)Johnsonville-A member of the public reported a brief tornado touchdown. No damage was noted.
May 2022Tornado (EF2)Johnsonville-A large dairy barn lost a roof, a camper was tipped over and|several outbuildings sustained damage.
June 2019Tornado (EF0)Johnsonville-A rare anticyclonic tornado touched down northeast of Estelline during the evening and lasted less than a minute. The tornado moved east and knocked down seven trees and tossed tree branches to the south and west at a farmstead. One of the tree branches hit the corner of a shed and bent part of the metal overhang on the shed.
June 2014Flash FloodJohnsonville-Very heavy rains of 3 to 4 inches resulted in a large amount of standing water in several open fields.
August 2014Flash FloodJohnsonville-Very heavy rains of 4 to 5 inches flooded several roads with gravel washed off in many locations. Hidewood creek also came out of its banks flooding pastureland.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-A large cottonwood tree was downed by seventy mph winds blocking the road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-no account filed
May 2022Funnel CloudJohnsonville-no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJohnsonville-no account filed
June 2010HailJohnsonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deuel 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
Toronto7.8 miles8
Brandt11.9 miles8
Astoria12.7 miles8
Clear Lake14.9 miles8
Bemis20.3 miles8
Altamont21.0 miles8
Moritz23.2 miles8
Goodwin23.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1255872. 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.