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Northville, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Northville town. It lies in ZIP code area 57465. The Survey maps it on the Northville quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,296 feet above sea level.

Northville within Spink County

Population over time

2 figures

Northville fell from 143 to 139 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
2010143
2020139-4 (-3%)

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

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Northville between 2000 and 2018, burning about 358 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
6 August 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMellette Volunteer Fire DepartmentDELOY
21 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
6 June 2018Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTHOMPSON, NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
18 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
1 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTALYOR
27 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionJESCHKE DITCH
22 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spink County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northville in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNorthville-Estimated seventy-five mph winds downed five empty grain bins.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNorthville-Sixty mph winds downed some large tree branches along with causing some roof damage.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNorthville-Seventy mph winds were estimated.
July 2015HailNorthville-The hail damaged a garden and a corn crop just north of town.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNorthville-Winds of 100 mph downed or snapped off many trees, destroyed several grain bins, and caused some structural damage to several buildings.
July 2025HailNorthville-no account filed
July 2025HailNorthville-no account filed
July 2025HailNorthville-no account filed
July 2017HailNorthville-no account filed
June 2005HailNorthville-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNorthville-no account filed
May 2005HailNorthville-no account filed
July 2004HailNorthville-no account filed
June 2003HailNorthville-no account filed
August 2002HailNorthville-no account filed
August 1997HailNorthville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spink 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
Mellette4.3 miles10
Mansfield6.1 miles8
Gallup7.4 miles10
Duxbury7.4 miles10
Athol10.2 miles8
Ashton11.9 miles10
Brentford13.6 miles10
Redfield19.6 miles8

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 NorthvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2182971The 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 1256794. 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.