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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.

Langford within Marshall County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Langford 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.

YearPeople Change
2010313
2020283-30 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

11 since 1998

Regional 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresLangford Volunteer Fire DepartmentREINTS
29 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use300 acresLangford Volunteer Fire DepartmentMARK JOHNSON
26 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGLODREY FIRE
1 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionRICHARD SMEINS
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
17 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresLangford Volunteer Fire DepartmentMIKE NELSON 2
15 April 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresLangford Volunteer Fire DepartmentKEVIN CARSON
15 April 2002Debris and open burning10 acresLangford Volunteer Fire DepartmentMIKE NELSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

29 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999LightningLangford$50,000Lightning struck the steeple of the Lutheran Church starting a fire. As a result, the church and most of its contents were destroyed.
August 2014Flash FloodLangford$5,000Very heavy rains caused flash flooding which washed out a culvert resulting in a road closure.
August 2014Flash FloodLangford$1,000Nearly 6 inches of rain resulted in water in the basement along with a large amount of standing water in the fields.
August 2025FloodLangford-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 2021Tornado (EF0)Langford-The tornado touched down very briefly.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Langford-A tornado touched down east northeast of Langford. The tornado damaged a cornfield and moved many hay bales.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLangford-Sixty mph winds were estimated in Langford.
May 2007FloodLangford-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 2007Flash FloodLangford-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 2005Flash FloodLangford-Heavy rains of 3 to 7 inches caused flash flooding throughout many parts of Marshall county. Many roads and cropland were flooded.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLangford-Seventy mph winds downed several trees, many branches, along with some power lines in Langford.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindLangford-High winds downed several trees and many branches.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLangford-no account filed
June 2024HailLangford-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLangford-no account filed
August 2022HailLangford-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLangford-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLangford-no account filed
June 2012HailLangford-no account filed
April 2010HailLangford-no account filed
April 2010HailLangford-no account filed
June 2008HailLangford-no account filed
October 2006HailLangford-no account filed
June 2005HailLangford-no account filed
July 2005HailLangford-no account filed
June 2003HailLangford-no account filed
August 2002HailLangford-no account filed
September 1995HailLangford-no account filed
September 1995Thunderstorm WindLangford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Spain7.3 miles6
Newport Colony7.6 miles6
Amherst10.5 miles6
West Britton13.1 miles7
Britton13.7 miles7
Westwood Colony19.8 miles7
Kidder20.3 miles7
Eden21.8 miles6

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 LangfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3240464The 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.