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Midland, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Midland town. It lies in ZIP code area 57552. It stands on Mitchell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Midland quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,880 feet above sea level.

Midland within Haakon County

On record in Midland

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Midland fell from 129 to 112 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
2010129
2020112-17 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Midland between 2007 and 2019, burning about 414 acres in total. 2 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHLAGEL
7 August 2007Natural45 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHOFIELD
2 August 2018Natural40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJONES FIRE
1 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNEWBOLD BALE FIRE
2 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use160 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
7 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionM DALY
26 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDALY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haakon 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 Midland: 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
Kusieh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Haakon County

Storms near this place

60 of 106 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midland in 106 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 75 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
June 2008FloodMidland$1,000,000Flooding occurred in Philip and throughout much of Haakon County.
August 2009HailMidland$15,000Large hail damaged and broke windows of automobiles.
August 2011HailMidland$10,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMidland$1,000Strong winds blew the roof off an outbuilding.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMidland-SD mesonet recorded wind gust.
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August 2025Thunderstorm WindMidland-SD Mesonet recorded wind gust.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-Several large trees were downed and some damage to structures was noted around town.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMidland-Trees were damaged and power lines were downed by the wind.
July 2016Flash FloodMidland-Water from Mud Creek flooded a driveway and a basement. Water also washed gravel off several county roads; including 224th Street, 225th Street, 226th Street, 240th Avenue, 241st Avenue, and 243rd Avenue. The Bad River near Midland rose over five feet in two hours.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMidland-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMidland-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindMidland-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMidland-Wind gusts were estimated at 65 mph.
October 2011Thunderstorm WindMidland-A spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
June 2011Flash FloodMidland-Significant flooding occurred along Ash and Brave Bull Creeks south of Midland.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMidland-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMidland-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2024HailMidland-no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2024HailMidland-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2024HailMidland-no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
July 2020HailMidland-no account filed
July 2020HailMidland-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Haakon 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
Nowlin7.9 miles6
Ottumwa15.1 miles6
Powell17.9 miles6
Lucerne22.8 miles6
Philip27.1 miles7
Moenville28.4 miles6
Elevenmile Corner28.5 miles6
Elbon31.7 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 MidlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2336188The 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 1256450. 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.