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.
Population over time
2 figuresNorthville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 143 | |
| 2020 | 139 | -4 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1899 USGS Northville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Northville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 August 2001 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Mellette Volunteer Fire Department | DELOY |
| 21 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 21 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 6 June 2018 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | THOMPSON, NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE |
| 18 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TALYOR |
| 27 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | JESCHKE DITCH |
| 22 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northville | - | Estimated seventy-five mph winds downed five empty grain bins. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northville | - | Sixty mph winds downed some large tree branches along with causing some roof damage. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northville | - | Seventy mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Northville | - | The hail damaged a garden and a corn crop just north of town. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northville | - | Winds of 100 mph downed or snapped off many trees, destroyed several grain bins, and caused some structural damage to several buildings. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northville | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Northville | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Northville | - | 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.
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 Northville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2182971 | 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 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.




