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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Estelline SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | I29 150 |
| 2 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KNUTSON |
| 12 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MM 153 |
| 23 April 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 18 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NELSON |
| 10 April 2003 | Smoking | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 30 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | INTERSTATE 29 |
| 29 March 2003 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Flash Flood | Johnsonville | $200,000 | Twenty road locations across Deuel county were washed out by the flash flooding with around 200 thousand dollars in damages. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | The Deuel County Emergency Manager reported that thunderstorm winds, estimated between 60 and 70 mph tipped a semi-truck. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | 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 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Johnsonville | - | A member of the public reported a brief tornado touchdown. No damage was noted. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Johnsonville | - | A large dairy barn lost a roof, a camper was tipped over and|several outbuildings sustained damage. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (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 2014 | Flash Flood | Johnsonville | - | Very heavy rains of 3 to 4 inches resulted in a large amount of standing water in several open fields. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Johnsonville | - | 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | A large cottonwood tree was downed by seventy mph winds blocking the road. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Johnsonville | - | 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.
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.



