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New Underwood, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in New Underwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 57761. The Survey maps it on the New Underwood quadrangle. 590 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,844 feet above sea level.

New Underwood within Pennington County

Population over time

2 figures

New Underwood fell from 660 to 590 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
2010660
2020590-70 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

38 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of New Underwood between 2000 and 2017, burning about 1,377 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined35
Natural3

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresPennington CountyHW 44
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCROSBIE
15 September 2016Natural5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTOMTIE
14 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression158 COUNTY ASSIST
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression1416 FIRE
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCROSBIE
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSPRING DRAW
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSIMMONS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington 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 New Underwood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Tesar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

54 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Underwood in 54 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 35 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2019Flash FloodNew Underwood$250,000Flash flooding occurred on Sage Creek in Badlands National Park. Water inundated Sage Creek Road and flooded Sage Creek Campground. Flash flooding compromised a culvert under the railroad tracks about five miles east of New Underwood, which derailed a Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern train. Two railroad employees in the partially submerged locomotive were injured.
June 2009HailNew Underwood$150,000Baseball sized hail broke automobile windows at mile marker 73 on Interstate 90 west of New Underwood.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood$10,000Strong winds ripped the roof off a mobile home.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood$5,000A camper was blown over on Interstate 90 near New Underwood.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood$3,000The roof and a wall were torn off a shed and carried several hundred feet by strong winds. A power pole was broken in three pieces.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-Wind gusts were near 60 mph.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-Wind gusts were estimated at almost 70 mph.
July 2021HailNew Underwood-Automobiles on Interstate 90 were damaged.
July 2021HailNew Underwood-Large hail to tennis ball size caused significant damage to the dome of the NWS Rapid City Doppler radar (KUDX).
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 70 mph.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph blew over several semi-trailer trucks.
June 2009Flash FloodNew Underwood-Most roads in and around New Underwood were covered with water for 1.5 hours.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-Dime sized hail fell.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
September 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2023HailNew Underwood-no account filed
May 2023HailNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2023HailNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
May 2021HailNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2020HailNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2018HailNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2016HailNew Underwood-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2014HailNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2009HailNew Underwood-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
June 2006HailNew Underwood-no account filed
May 2006HailNew Underwood-no account filed
May 2006HailNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
March 2004HailNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2003HailNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Underwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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
Mawl Springs1.9 miles8
Farmingdale9.6 miles8
Caputa10.3 miles8
Box Elder12.4 miles16
Wicksville13.1 miles9
Owanka14.1 miles9
Creston14.6 miles8
Green Valley15.1 miles16

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 New UnderwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2197104The 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 1256685. 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.