Nunda, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nunda town. It lies in ZIP code area 57050. The Survey maps it on the Sinai quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,762 feet above sea level.
On record in Nunda
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresNunda grew from 43 to 46 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 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 46 | +3 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Sinai quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Nunda between 2007 and 2009, burning about 180 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 July 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Madison Wetland Management District | RAMSEY WF |
| 28 July 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 9 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 acres | Madison Wetland Management District | ALQUIRE WF07 |
| 14 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 147 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nunda in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Flood | Nunda | $25,000 | Significant ponding of water occurred over much of the area around Madison and Chester. Street flooding occured throughout much of Madison. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nunda | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nunda | - | Five large trees were knocked down and a roof blown off of a barn. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Nunda | - | A brief funnel cloud was observed. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Nunda | - | Large hail dented a few vehicles and caused crop damage. The amount of property and crop damage was not known. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nunda | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nunda | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous small branches blown down. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Nunda | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nunda | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous small branches blown down. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nunda | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 10 to 12 inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Nunda | - | Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of damage was not known, but much of the damaged crops were expected to recover. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Nunda | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Nunda | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Nunda | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Nunda | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Nunda | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Nunda | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nunda | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Nunda | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Queen (historical) | 2.2 miles | 9 | |
| Rutland | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Ramona | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Wentworth | 11.7 miles | 7 | |
| Madison | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Chautauqua | 12.7 miles | 6 | |
| Prairie Village | 13.3 miles | 9 | |
| Peninsula Park | 14.9 miles | 6 |
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 Nunda | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2361740 | 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 1256807. 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.



