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Joubert, South Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57344. The Survey maps it on the Joubert quadrangle.

Joubert within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Joubert between 2003 and 2012, burning about 299 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGREEN BEAN 11-023
28 July 2008Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
27 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
22 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionROCKPILE 10-010
31 May 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
28 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
16 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTERK
12 April 2006Debris and open burning191 acresLake Andes National Wildlife RefugeNEW HOLLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Joubert in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2019FloodJoubert$670,000Flooding resulted in extensive damage to public infrastructure including numerous county and township roads, culverts, and some bridges. The property damage costs include estimates for public property losses.
June 2024FloodJoubert$582,000Rainfall amounts across Douglas County from June 20-22 ranged from 3 to 5 inches. Some overland flooding ensued with several township roads damaged by flood waters. In addition, three homes reported water damage. Preliminary damage assessments estimate loss to public infrastructure across the county to be 582 thousand dollars.
July 1998HailJoubert$200,000Large hail devastated crops, broke windows, and caused other damage to buildings and vehicles.
September 2019FloodJoubert$21,000Water was ponding over Highway 44 one-half mile west of the intersection with U.S. Highway 281. In addition, numerous county and township roads were inundated with water for several days and some loss of crops occurred.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindJoubert$15,000A barn was blown apart by thunderstorm winds north of Joubert.
July 2010HailJoubert$10,000Baseball size hail caused an unknown amount of damage to corn and other crops in the area. The hail also damaged vehicles.
June 2019FloodJoubert-During crop planting season, prolonged flooding led to the loss of or inability to plant crops across the area. Crop loss estimates provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
June 2018HailJoubert-Brief heavy rainfall was mixed with occasional hail up to dime size.
June 2012HailJoubert-Large hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles, roofs, and crops.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Joubert-A rain wrapped tornado caused no reported damage.
June 2017HailJoubert-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindJoubert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
New Holland3.0 miles9
Harrison7.4 miles9
Corsica13.8 miles9
Grandview (historical)16.5 miles9
Armour18.5 miles9
Douglas City (historical)18.9 miles9
Hillside24.3 miles9
Delmont28.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122540200The 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 1265660. 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.