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Meadow, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Meadow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57644. The Survey maps it on the Meadow quadrangle. It stands 2,703 feet above sea level.

Meadow within Perkins County

On record in Meadow

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Meadow between 2002 and 2018, burning about 1,167 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined650 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJOHN BUER
22 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTORMFIRE
15 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLARRY SCHECKER
13 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionR.J SCHILEY
10 August 2007Natural150 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
28 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use60 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Every fire recorded in Perkins County

Storms near this place

60 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meadow in 89 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 46 thunderstorm wind, 39 hail, 4 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
May 2010Tornado (EF2)Meadow$100,000A tornado touched down just southeast of the intersection of S.D. Highways 73 and 20 East. It destroyed the Progress Rural School and continued to track to the north, dissipating northwest of the intersection of S.D. Highways 73 and 20 West.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMeadow$22,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew a small building apart and scattered the debris. Event time was estimated from radar data.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMeadow$20,000Outbuildings on two ranches were destroyed by strong winds. Time was estimated from radar.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMeadow$15,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed several grain bins and damaged an attached two-stall garage.
June 1996HailMeadow$10,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMeadow$5,000Crops were destroyed from wind driven hail.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMeadow$5,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindMeadow$5,000no account filed
June 2005HailMeadow$2,000Combination of hail and wind broke several windows in a house.
June 2021HailMeadow-Hail up to ping pong ball size fell for about 30 minutes.
May 2021Tornado (EFU)Meadow-A tornado formed shortly after a previous tornado dissipated. This tornado touched down about ten miles south of Meadow and was on the ground for about seven minutes. No damage was reported as it traveled over open terrain.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2016HailMeadow-Wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph were also reported with the storm.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 70 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-The spotter estimated wind gusts near 90 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-A storm chaser estimated wind gusts to 90 mph blew down trees in Meadow.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Wind gusts were estimated near 70 mph.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Meadow-A tornado touched down in open country south of Meadow; it caused no damage.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Meadow-A tornado touched down in open country southwest of Meadow; it caused no damage.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Occasional wind gusts over 60 mph were recorded for 40 minutes.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMeadow-A spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMeadow-A spotter reported wind gusts of 65 mph.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMeadow-A garage was blown off its foundation and a large cottonwood tree was blown onto a house, damaging its roof. Event time was estimated from radar data.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMeadow-Crops were destroyed from wind driven hail.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
June 2021HailMeadow-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
August 2021HailMeadow-no account filed
August 2021HailMeadow-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
August 2021HailMeadow-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
June 2018HailMeadow-no account filed
August 2017HailMeadow-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
May 2016HailMeadow-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
July 2016HailMeadow-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
July 2016HailMeadow-no account filed
July 2016HailMeadow-no account filed
July 2016HailMeadow-no account filed
July 2016HailMeadow-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMeadow-no account filed
June 2015HailMeadow-no account filed
June 2015HailMeadow-no account filed
June 2015HailMeadow-no account filed
June 2014HailMeadow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perkins 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
Coal Springs8.3 miles7
Chance8.9 miles7
Bison13.0 miles7
Shadehill16.4 miles7
Summerville17.0 miles7
Usta21.5 miles7
Date27.0 miles7
Lemmon28.6 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 MeadowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14709769The 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 1256408. 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.