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Peever, South Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lawrence Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57257. It stands on Big Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Peever quadrangle. 180 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,201 feet above sea level.

Peever within Roberts County

Population over time

2 figures

Peever grew from 168 to 180 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
2010168
2020180+12 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Peever between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1,007 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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 burning21
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresSisseton AgencyBLACKSMITH
27 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor40 acresSisseton AgencyPEEVFLAT
18 July 2002Naturalunder an acreSisseton AgencyEASTMANRD
17 July 2010Misuse of fire by a minor3.8 acresSisseton AgencyMYRUM
6 June 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresSisseton AgencyLAST
8 April 1996Debris and open burning160 acresSisseton AgencyLBAR
7 April 2003Debris and open burning12 acresSisseton AgencyTHISSEN
7 April 1992Debris and open burning5.0 acresSisseton Agencynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Peever: 1 producer. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roberts County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peever in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 5 hail, 2 tornado. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindPeever-A trained spotter estimated winds up to 60 mph were responsible for some minor tree damage, including a few branches down.
August 2025Flash FloodPeever-Roberts County Emergency Management reports that barricades were required at several locations where water has come up over highways and secondary roads, from portions of highway 15 near Wilmot all the way up to 123rd St 3 miles north of Agency Village.
June 2023Tornado (EF0)Peever-The report of a brief landspout tornado came with a photograph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPeever-An estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported by the public.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindPeever-This report was recorded at mesonet station 143 six miles south-southwest of Peever.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPeever-Estimated 60 mph winds caused minor tree damage with a few limbs up to 5 inches in diameter broken off.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindPeever-A 30-foot trailer pulled by a pickup truck was overturned on Interstate-29 by estimated 70 mph winds.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPeever-Several trees were downed in Peever by estimated seventy mph winds.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPeever-Eighty mph winds tipped over a pickup and a trailer just east of Interstate-90.
June 2012Tornado (EF0)Peever-Brief touchdown in a field.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindPeever-An estimated ninety mph wind first caused roof and siding damage to a home just west of Peever. A storage building on the northwest edge of town was blown off of its foundation with debris blow downwind. Several large trees were blown down along with many large tree branches. Additionally, the side wall of a lumber storage facility was blown off of its foundation but remained on the building in Peever.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPeever-Several trees were downed by seventy mph winds in Peever.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPeever-Many trees were downed southwest of Peever.
April 2011FloodPeever-The Little Minnesota River near Peever went nearly a foot over the 17 foot flood stage for a few days in early April. Only minor flooding of crop and agricultural land occurred.
March 2011FloodPeever-Snowmelt runoff brought the Little Minnesota River near Peever above flood stage a couple times from March 17th to March 23rd. The river went above the 17 foot flood stage on March 17th and then below on the 18th. The river went back above flood stage on the 20th and then back below on March 23rd. Mainly pasture and cropland flooding occurred along with a few roads being overtopped.
May 1994HailPeever-Several trees were downed by winds.
June 2025FloodPeever-no account filed
April 2023FloodPeever-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPeever-no account filed
May 2022FloodPeever-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindPeever-no account filed
August 2021HailPeever-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPeever-no account filed
July 2017HailPeever-no account filed
June 2014FloodPeever-no account filed
March 2010FloodPeever-no account filed
March 2009FloodPeever-no account filed
June 2007HailPeever-no account filed
May 1994HailPeever-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roberts 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
Peever Flats1.7 miles12
Goodwill6.3 miles6
Spring Grove7.5 miles7
Sisseton9.8 miles6
Wilmot10.6 miles6
Valley View Estates11.8 miles6
Hiawatha Beach12.2 miles8
Madsen Beach12.7 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 PeeverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q374292The 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 1256998. 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.