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Newark, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Newark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57430. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle.

Newark within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Newark between 2008 and 2018, burning about 771 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 June 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKIDDER FIRE
7 May 2016Debris and open burning25 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNORTH QUARTER
3 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined650 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBRITTON
16 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDOUG HENLEY RESTART
14 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNORTH SECTION
5 February 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNELSON TREE PILE FIRE
13 November 2016Debris and open burning10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBRAMPTON FIRE
25 October 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCHESTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

16 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newark in 16 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 13 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2023FloodNewark$150,000Many roadways were flooded, including Marshall County Road 11 south of Amherst.
April 2019FloodNewark$143,300no account filed
March 2011FloodNewark$100,000Snow melt brought flooding across much of Marshall county. Many roads along with crop and pastureland were flooded. The lake levels also rose across the county. In the early morning hours of March 18th, the creek northeast of Langford became blocked by snow and ice, causing water to run into Langford streets and the house basements. Some people had a couple of feet of water in their basements. The basements of at least two homes in Langford had collapsed. The water receded during the late afternoon.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNewark-A farmer reported that thunderstorm winds caused a large limb to fall from his tree.
March 2019FloodNewark-Several county and township roads were flooded and closed. Three homes in Langford ended up with water in their basements due to a fast rising creek.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindNewark-A 40 foot tall tree was snapped at the base and corn was flattened by seventy mph winds.
August 2025HailNewark-no account filed
July 2020FloodNewark-no account filed
June 2019FloodNewark-no account filed
May 2019FloodNewark-no account filed
April 2011FloodNewark-no account filed
March 2010FloodNewark-no account filed
April 2010FloodNewark-no account filed
May 2010FloodNewark-no account filed
July 2010FloodNewark-no account filed
June 2010FloodNewark-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Westwood Colony3.0 miles7
Kidder5.2 miles7
Britton9.7 miles7
West Britton9.8 miles7
Amherst14.9 miles6
Spain15.6 miles6
Newport Colony18.8 miles6
Marlow21.5 miles7

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 NewarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q23709405The 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 1260946. 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.