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Lebanon, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Potter unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57455. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon quadrangle. 33 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,952 feet above sea level.

Lebanon within Potter County

Population over time

2 figures

Lebanon fell from 47 to 33 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
202033-14 (-30%)

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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lebanon between 2000 and 2018, burning about 5,183 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use10 acresLebanon Volunteer Fire DepartmentBREEN 2
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLebanon Volunteer Fire DepartmentBREEN
25 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMETAL WORKS
25 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionROGER SIMON FIRE
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRAD SIMON
17 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRAD SIMON 2
21 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresGettysburg Volunteer Fire DepartmentELMER NYLANDER

Every fire recorded in Potter 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 Lebanon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Knott Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Potter County

Storms near this place

34 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lebanon in 34 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 22 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLebanon-Sixty mph winds brought some tree limbs down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLebanon-Sixty mph winds blew the chicken coop next to the grain bin.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Lebanon-A tornado touched down northwest of Lebanon with no damage reported.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Lebanon-A tornado touched down briefly northwest of Lebanon with no damage occurring.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindLebanon-Sixty mph winds blew a large barn door off of its track.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLebanon-Strong thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto a fence.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLebanon-no account filed
July 2025HailLebanon-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLebanon-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLebanon-no account filed
July 2023HailLebanon-no account filed
June 2020HailLebanon-no account filed
July 2019HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2018HailLebanon-no account filed
June 2017HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2017HailLebanon-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLebanon-no account filed
June 2014HailLebanon-no account filed
July 2011HailLebanon-no account filed
July 2011HailLebanon-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLebanon-no account filed
July 2008HailLebanon-no account filed
April 2007HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2007HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2007HailLebanon-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLebanon-no account filed
May 2006HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2005HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2005HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2002HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2002HailLebanon-no account filed
August 2002HailLebanon-no account filed
May 2001HailLebanon-no account filed
July 1997HailLebanon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Potter 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
Gettysburg10.6 miles7
Hoven12.0 miles7
Tolstoy12.6 miles7
Gorman18.9 miles6
Forest City28.5 miles7

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 LebanonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2788855The 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 1265663. 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.