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Onida, South Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Sully unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 57564. The Survey maps it on the Onida quadrangle. 666 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,873 feet above sea level.

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Onida within Sully County

On record in Onida

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Onida grew from 658 to 666 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
2010658
2020666+8 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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

57 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Onida between 2002 and 2017, burning about 1,697 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning2
Natural2

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 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSully CountyBARBER
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSully CountySUTTON BAY
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMILLER MATHEWS
5 August 2005Natural5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
25 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHONEY FARM
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLYNN EBERT
24 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBUHLER
14 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSully CountySTRICKLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sully County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Onida: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sully County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trumble Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sully County

Storms near this place

60 of 102 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Onida in 102 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 63 hail, 31 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1999Flash FloodOnida$275,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindOnida-A personal weather station recorded a wind gust of 70 mph.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindOnida-Winds were estimated at sixty-five mph by a driver on Highway 83.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindOnida-Estimated sixty mph winds took a large branch off of a tree.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindOnida-An estimated seventy-five mph wind uprooted two trees.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOnida-Damaging winds took part of the roof off the bank in Onida, knocked out the power to the city, and downed many trees in and around town.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOnida-A feed wagon was tossed 40 feet by an estimated 90 mph wind.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindOnida-Damaging thunderstorm winds downed six power poles between Sully Buttes and Onida knocking power out to over 800 homes in and around Onida.
August 2007Flash FloodOnida-A county road was underwater three miles south of Onida for several hours.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Onida-A weak tornado touched down briefly in an open area causing no damage.
August 2006Tornado (F1)Onida-A supercell thunderstorm produced an F1 intensity tornado northeast of Onida. The tornado traveled for 5 miles in Sully county and had a path width of up to 600 yards. The tornado caused significant damage to a farmstead 6 miles east and 4 miles north of Onida. The ground in a harvested sunflower field was heavily scoured. Many large hay bales were scattered about. The tornado finally lifted in an open field 10 miles east northeast to Onida.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOnida-Winds measured over 110 mph caused a lot of damage in and around Onida. Two small planes were flipped and destroyed at the airport with a hanger also destroyed. Also, a 40 by 40 foot garage was destroyed with many trees downed.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindOnida-Several large tree branches were downed by the high winds.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindOnida-Wind downed flagpole, and damaged shed and pole barn of an ag-business east of Onida.
August 2004HailOnida-Large hail broke many windows and damaged the siding and roofs of most of the outbuildings and the home.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOnida-High winds brought down many large tree branches.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Onida-A tornado touched down in far southern Sully county and moved into northern Hughes county. No damage occurred.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindOnida-Winds of 90 mph sheared off tens of power poles west of Onida leaving many people without power. The high winds also damaged pole buildings and granaries and overturned several campers at a lake.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindOnida-Sixty mph winds brought some large tree branches down.
July 1999Tornado (F0)Onida-A tornado touched down briefly on a farm southeast of Onida. Over half of the roof of a 40 by 45 foot building was torn off and deposited in a tree belt 200 yards to the north. The south wall of this building was caved in and the north wall was pulled out and the overhead door was ripped off. A grain auger was also damaged when it was blown up against a granary. A semi trailer was blown over. About 400 acres of ripe wheat were also flattened and some sunflowers suffered damage as a result of the tornado. Path length and width were estimated.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindOnida-Thunderstorm winds tore some shingles off a house and barn and also knocked down some very large branches.
August 1993Tornado (F0)Onida-There were several reports of brief tornado touchdowns with no damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
August 2019HailOnida-no account filed
May 2018HailOnida-no account filed
September 2018HailOnida-no account filed
August 2018HailOnida-no account filed
July 2016HailOnida-no account filed
July 2016HailOnida-no account filed
June 2015HailOnida-no account filed
September 2015HailOnida-no account filed
September 2015HailOnida-no account filed
August 2011HailOnida-no account filed
July 2009Flash FloodOnida-no account filed
August 2009HailOnida-no account filed
August 2009HailOnida-no account filed
July 2008HailOnida-no account filed
April 2007HailOnida-no account filed
June 2007HailOnida-no account filed
June 2007HailOnida-no account filed
June 2007HailOnida-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
June 2007HailOnida-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
May 2006HailOnida-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
May 2006HailOnida-no account filed
June 2006HailOnida-no account filed
June 2006HailOnida-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
August 2006HailOnida-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
August 2006HailOnida-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindOnida-no account filed
May 2005HailOnida-no account filed
September 2005HailOnida-no account filed
June 2004HailOnida-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sully 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
Eakin6.5 miles6
Agar9.0 miles6
Okobojo18.3 miles6

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 OnidaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2451306The 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 1256897. 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.