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.
Population over time
2 figuresLowry 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | |
| 2020 | 10 | +4 (+67%) |
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.
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Lowry quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Gettysburg quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional 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 causes | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 1999 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | Lowry Volunteer Fire Department | HUBER |
| 1 August 2015 | Natural | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SIECK FIRE |
| 15 May 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Lowry Volunteer Fire Department | BEITELSPACHER |
| 14 February 2000 | Debris and open burning | 75 acres | Hoven Volunteer Fire Department | RON ANBUSH |
Storms near this place
47 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | A peak wind gust of 76 mph was measured by the South Dakota Department of Transportation weather station two miles south of Lowry. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | Wind destroyed a large outbuilding/chicken coop. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lowry | - | Half dollar size hail caused some garden and crop damage. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Lowry | - | Hail damaged some door screens. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | Sixty mph winds downed a large tree limb. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Lowry | - | A tornado touched down briefly northeast of Hoven in an open field with no damage occurring. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | Eighty mph winds shifted a wood grainery off of it's foundation about eight inches. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | Seventy mph winds took out a door and the back wall of an old barn. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | A couple large cottonwood trees were uprooted by eighty mph winds. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Lowry | - | Large hail broke the windows on a truck driving on the road. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Lowry | - | A tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage occurring. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Lowry | - | A weak tornado touched down briefly in an open field with no damage found. |
| August 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Lowry | - | A tornado touched down west of Hoven with no damage occurring. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lowry | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Lowry | - | 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.
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 Lowry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2662364 | 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 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.



