McLaughlin, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Corson unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57642. The Survey maps it on the McLaughlin quadrangle. 569 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,001 feet above sea level.
On record in McLaughlin
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 figuresMcLaughlin fell from 663 to 569 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 | 663 | |
| 2020 | 569 | -94 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 McIntosh quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS McLaughlin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Mobridge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
207 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of McLaughlin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,554 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 20 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56 |
| Fireworks | 43 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 35 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Standing Rock Agency | MODEL T |
| 5 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.5 acres | Standing Rock Agency | BICKEL |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | 35 acres | Standing Rock Agency | BIG OX 2 |
| 4 September 2001 | Natural | 50 acres | Standing Rock Agency | BIG OX |
| 30 September 2001 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.5 acres | Standing Rock Agency | HOUSING |
| 30 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Standing Rock Agency | BIGBEAR |
| 30 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Standing Rock Agency | MCL15 |
| 29 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Standing Rock Agency | COMBINE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McLaughlin in 3 storm reports between 1994 and 1995: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | McLaughlin | $50,000 | Hail broke some windows and damaged crops, while strong winds demolished a shed and part of a catwalk and blew down numerous tree limbs and branches. The damage occurred on the edge of a swath that extended largely north of the northern border of South Dakota. Most of the damage in South Dakota occured in or near Lemmon. |
| July 1995 | Hail | Mclaughlin | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Mclaughlin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahto | 8.1 miles | 7 | |
| Maple Leaf | 8.7 miles | 7 | |
| Little Eagle | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Jeffrey (historical) | 13.7 miles | 8 | |
| Bullhead | 14.7 miles | 8 | |
| Walker | 16.2 miles | 6 | |
| Wakpala | 18.2 miles | 8 | |
| Kenel | 18.8 miles | 8 |
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 McLaughlin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3177857 | 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 1256396. 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.



