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Menno, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Menno City. It lies in ZIP code area 57045. The Survey maps it on the Menno quadrangle. 614 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Menno within Hutchinson County

On record in Menno

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Menno grew from 608 to 614 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
2010608
2020614+6 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

23 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Menno between 2008 and 2018, burning about 227 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCOUNTY RD
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMAXWELL
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDAN ULMER
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH
11 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
25 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHUTCHINSON COUNTY
10 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPRESZLER
5 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionULMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hutchinson 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 Menno: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Buchman Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hutchinson County

Storms near this place

37 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menno in 37 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 21 hail, 14 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
April 2005Thunderstorm WindMenno$500,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage in Menno. Numerous trees including several large trees were uprooted. Numerous homes were damaged, some directly by the wind and others by tree and other debris. Garages were especially hard hit, including at least one garage which was destroyed. A grain elevator was damaged, with a catwalk and conveyor being blown over. An historical post office addition to a log building was destroyed, doors and part of the roof of a flour mill were blown down, and doors were blown off several other buildings. Many homes and other buildings had windows broken and siding damaged. A few small storage buildings were destroyed, and others were damaged or blown over. Several farms were heavily damaged, with machine sheds, at least one hog barn, and several other small structures destroyed. Several vehicles were damaged, including one pickup which was pushed partly onto the porch of a house. Power lines and poles were blown down, resulting in a power outage in Menno.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMenno$100,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a tire storage building, blew out several windows, and caused shingle and other roof damage to several structures in Menno. The winds blew down numerous trees, some large. Several vehicles, garages, and roofs were damaged by falling trees and tree debris, including at least 2 vehicles destroyed. The winds blew down power lines, causing a power outage.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMenno$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree and minor roof damage.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Menno$10,000A tornado broke one foot diameter trees, tossed hay bales, and broke a few light poles.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMenno$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down branches and power lines, causing a power outage.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMenno$3,000no account filed
July 2025HailMenno-A few hailstones up to golf ball size were reported in Menno.
June 2025HailMenno-Hail as big as a quarter, but most was pea to nickel size.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm wind gusts up to 58 mph were measured by the South Dakota State University mesonet site 7 miles east-southeast of Menno.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm winds were measured on a personal weather station in Menno.
June 2016HailMenno-Large hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees blown down. The winds were accompanied by large hail.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. The winds were accompanied by penny size hail.
August 2015HailMenno-Penny size hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by heavy rain and small hail.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several small branches blown down.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including one tree uprooted. The amount of damage was not known.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMenno-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large 12 inch diameter limb broken off. The limb just missed damaging a house when it fell.
July 2002HailMenno-Large hail and strong winds caused heavy damage to crops. The amount of crop damage was not known.
May 2022HailMenno-no account filed
August 2017HailMenno-no account filed
June 2017HailMenno-no account filed
August 2015HailMenno-no account filed
June 2009HailMenno-no account filed
May 2008HailMenno-no account filed
May 2008HailMenno-no account filed
May 2007HailMenno-no account filed
June 2006HailMenno-no account filed
June 2006HailMenno-no account filed
September 2005HailMenno-no account filed
April 2004HailMenno-no account filed
July 2004HailMenno-no account filed
May 2001HailMenno-no account filed
June 2000HailMenno-no account filed
May 1999HailMenno-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMenno-no account filed
September 1997Tornado (F0)Menno-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hutchinson 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
Maxwell Colony5.0 miles12
Olivet5.2 miles12
Wolf Creek7.8 miles11
Tschetter Colony10.7 miles11
Freeman10.8 miles11
Kaylor14.3 miles11
Clayton14.7 miles12
Milltown17.4 miles11

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 MennoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2081755The 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 1256434. 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.