North Sioux City, South Dakota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in North Sioux City City. It lies in ZIP code area 57049. The Survey maps it on the Sioux City North quadrangle. 3,042 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNorth Sioux City grew from 2,530 to 3,042 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,530 | |
| 2020 | 3,042 | +512 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Sioux City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Sioux City North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of North Sioux City between 1998 and 2020, burning about 68 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 1999 | Fireworks | under an acre | North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department | DAKOTA DUNES |
| 5 July 2002 | Fireworks | under an acre | North Sioux Volunteer Fire Department | I-29 MM 4 |
| 4 July 2005 | Fireworks | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 26 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 101 COTTS |
| 13 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HOFFMAN RD |
| 12 May 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Desmet Volunteer Fire Department | #643 |
| 7 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | COUNTRY ACRES |
| 16 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 1001 RIVER DRIVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of North Sioux City: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
29 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Sioux City in 29 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | $200,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread damage to trees, power poles, and lines, resulting in power outages affecting most of North Sioux City. Some large trees were sheared from their trunks. Tree debris damaged vehicles, homes, garages, and sheds. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | $100,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, resulting in power outages in parts of the county. The winds also destroyed a silo, blew out the wall of a barn, the roof of a shed, windows on the south side of a house, and damaged road signs and outbuildings. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | Broadcast media reported hail 1.25 inches in diameter, resulting in cars pulling off Interstate 29. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | - | Numerous trees were snapped with powerlines down throughout Dakota Dunes. |
| August 2011 | Flood | North Sioux City | - | Minor flooding of the Big Sioux River, caused by backing of Missouri River floodwaters, continued at the start of August before ending by August 10th. The flooding in the North Sioux City and Dakota Dunes area had little additional impact to the Missouri River flooding. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | North Sioux City | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of several streets. |
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | North Sioux City | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding of streets and other low areas. Several vehicles were stranded in the water. The street flooding included entrance and exit ramps to and from Interstate Highway 29. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | North Sioux City | - | Heavy rainfall caused widespread street flooding, with some manhole covers blown off. Several vehicles were stalled. |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | North Sioux City | - | Significant street flooding occurred after heavy rain. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | North Sioux City | - | Heavy rain caused street and basement flooding. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | North Sioux City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCook Lake | 1.6 miles | 22 | |
| Dakota Dunes | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Jefferson | 6.6 miles | 22 | |
| Elk Point | 15.1 miles | 20 | |
| Richland | 18.4 miles | 19 | |
| Junction City | 24.1 miles | 18 | |
| Spink | 26.4 miles | 19 | |
| Midway | 28.4 miles | 18 |
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 North Sioux City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3243570 | The 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 1256778. 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.





