Langford, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Langford town. It lies in ZIP code area 57454. The Survey maps it on the Langford quadrangle. 283 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.
On record in Langford
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
First Presbyterian Church of Langfordlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresLangford fell from 313 to 283 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 313 | |
| 2020 | 283 | -30 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Langford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Langford between 1998 and 2015, burning about 421 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Langford Volunteer Fire Department | REINTS |
| 29 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Langford Volunteer Fire Department | MARK JOHNSON |
| 26 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GLODREY FIRE |
| 1 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | RICHARD SMEINS |
| 17 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 17 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Langford Volunteer Fire Department | MIKE NELSON 2 |
| 15 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Langford Volunteer Fire Department | KEVIN CARSON |
| 15 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Langford Volunteer Fire Department | MIKE NELSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langford in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Lightning | Langford | $50,000 | Lightning struck the steeple of the Lutheran Church starting a fire. As a result, the church and most of its contents were destroyed. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Langford | $5,000 | Very heavy rains caused flash flooding which washed out a culvert resulting in a road closure. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Langford | $1,000 | Nearly 6 inches of rain resulted in water in the basement along with a large amount of standing water in the fields. |
| August 2025 | Flood | Langford | - | Marshall County Emergency Management relayed that multiple rural roads and intersections have running water across them from recent heavy rainfall in and around the towns of Langford, Amherst, Britton and Newport Colony. |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Langford | - | The tornado touched down very briefly. |
| July 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Langford | - | A tornado touched down east northeast of Langford. The tornado damaged a cornfield and moved many hay bales. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated in Langford. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Langford | - | Widespread flooding from very heavy rains continued across much of Marshall county into May 7th. Many roads were flooded with some receiving damage. Also, many homes received water in their basements with some damage. Thousands of acres of cropland were inundated with some seeds and large amounts of fertilizer washed away.| |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Langford | - | Very heavy rains of 3 to 7 inches caused flash flooding across much of Marshall county. Many roads were flooded with some receiving damage. Also, many homes received water in their basements with some damage. Thousands of acres of cropland were inundated with some seeds and large amounts of fertilizer washed away.||Rainfall amounts included 3.82 inches at Britton, 4 inches at Eden, 5.68 inches west of Britton, 6 inches at Langford, and 7 inches 7 miles west of Britton. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Langford | - | Heavy rains of 3 to 7 inches caused flash flooding throughout many parts of Marshall county. Many roads and cropland were flooded. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | Seventy mph winds downed several trees, many branches, along with some power lines in Langford. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | High winds downed several trees and many branches. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Langford | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langford | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 7.3 miles | 6 | |
| Newport Colony | 7.6 miles | 6 | |
| Amherst | 10.5 miles | 6 | |
| West Britton | 13.1 miles | 7 | |
| Britton | 13.7 miles | 7 | |
| Westwood Colony | 19.8 miles | 7 | |
| Kidder | 20.3 miles | 7 | |
| Eden | 21.8 miles | 6 |
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 Langford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3240464 | The 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 1256056. 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.



