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Kaylor, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Kaylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57354. The Survey maps it on the Kaylor quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,394 feet above sea level.

Kaylor within Hutchinson County

Population over time

2 figures

Kaylor fell from 47 to 30 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
201047
202030-17 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kaylor in 2016, burning about 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMCLAURY CRP

Every fire recorded in Hutchinson 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 Kaylor: 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
J.Kocer Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hutchinson County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kaylor in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2000Thunderstorm WindKaylor$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and blew over two grain bins.
July 2024Tornado (EFU)Kaylor-A landspout was observed to very briefly touch down in an open field east of 415th Avenue and south of 287th Street. No damage was observed to indicate intensity.
July 2014HailKaylor-Large hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindKaylor-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The winds were accompanied by large hail.
July 2008Flash FloodKaylor-Heavy rainfall of 3 to 6 inches caused flash flooding of roads, driveways, and low areas. Up to 6 inches of water was flowing over roads.
June 2023HailKaylor-no account filed
August 2000HailKaylor-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindKaylor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hutchinson 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
Tripp7.2 miles11
Olivet9.4 miles12
Beardsley10.8 miles11
Maxwell Colony10.8 miles12
Menno14.3 miles11
Tschetter Colony14.9 miles11
Wolf Creek15.8 miles11
Milltown16.4 miles11

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 KaylorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2706426The 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 1255912. 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.