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Lowry, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Walworth unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57472. The Survey maps it on the Lowry quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,864 feet above sea level.

Lowry within Walworth County

Population over time

2 figures

Lowry grew from 6 to 10 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
20106
202010+4 (+67%)

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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lowry between 1999 and 2015, burning about 97 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
Other causes1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Natural1

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 September 1999Other causes2.0 acresLowry Volunteer Fire DepartmentHUBER
1 August 2015Natural15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSIECK FIRE
15 May 2001Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLowry Volunteer Fire DepartmentBEITELSPACHER
14 February 2000Debris and open burning75 acresHoven Volunteer Fire DepartmentRON ANBUSH

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

47 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowry in 47 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLowry-A peak wind gust of 76 mph was measured by the South Dakota Department of Transportation weather station two miles south of Lowry.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLowry-Wind destroyed a large outbuilding/chicken coop.
August 2019HailLowry-Half dollar size hail caused some garden and crop damage.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLowry-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
August 2015HailLowry-Hail damaged some door screens.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLowry-Sixty mph winds downed a large tree limb.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Lowry-A tornado touched down briefly northeast of Hoven in an open field with no damage occurring.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLowry-Eighty mph winds shifted a wood grainery off of it's foundation about eight inches.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLowry-Seventy mph winds took out a door and the back wall of an old barn.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLowry-A couple large cottonwood trees were uprooted by eighty mph winds.
June 2010HailLowry-Large hail broke the windows on a truck driving on the road.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Lowry-A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage occurring.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Lowry-A weak tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage found.
August 2007Tornado (EF0)Lowry-A tornado touched down west of Hoven with no damage occurring.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
August 2025HailLowry-no account filed
August 2025HailLowry-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
August 2021HailLowry-no account filed
July 2020Funnel CloudLowry-no account filed
June 2020HailLowry-no account filed
August 2019HailLowry-no account filed
July 2019HailLowry-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
August 2018HailLowry-no account filed
August 2018HailLowry-no account filed
July 2017HailLowry-no account filed
May 2016HailLowry-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLowry-no account filed
July 2015HailLowry-no account filed
May 2010HailLowry-no account filed
May 2010HailLowry-no account filed
July 2009Flash FloodLowry-no account filed
October 2007HailLowry-no account filed
August 2006HailLowry-no account filed
May 2005HailLowry-no account filed
August 2005HailLowry-no account filed
June 2001HailLowry-no account filed
June 2000HailLowry-no account filed
June 2000HailLowry-no account filed
August 2000HailLowry-no account filed
June 1997HailLowry-no account filed
May 1995HailLowry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Akaska7.4 miles7
Selby13.4 miles7
Java13.9 miles7
Sitka17.6 miles7
Glenham21.4 miles7
Mobridge28.1 miles8

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 LowryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2662364The 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 1256263. 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.