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.
Population over time
2 figuresPeever 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 168 | |
| 2020 | 180 | +12 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1916 USGS Peever quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Peever quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Peever quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
40 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Sisseton Agency | BLACKSMITH |
| 27 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 40 acres | Sisseton Agency | PEEVFLAT |
| 18 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Sisseton Agency | EASTMANRD |
| 17 July 2010 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 3.8 acres | Sisseton Agency | MYRUM |
| 6 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | LAST |
| 8 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Sisseton Agency | LBAR |
| 7 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Sisseton Agency | THISSEN |
| 7 April 1992 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | A trained spotter estimated winds up to 60 mph were responsible for some minor tree damage, including a few branches down. |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Peever | - | 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 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Peever | - | The report of a brief landspout tornado came with a photograph. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | An estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported by the public. |
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | This report was recorded at mesonet station 143 six miles south-southwest of Peever. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | Estimated 60 mph winds caused minor tree damage with a few limbs up to 5 inches in diameter broken off. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | A 30-foot trailer pulled by a pickup truck was overturned on Interstate-29 by estimated 70 mph winds. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | Several trees were downed in Peever by estimated seventy mph winds. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | Eighty mph winds tipped over a pickup and a trailer just east of Interstate-90. |
| June 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Peever | - | Brief touchdown in a field. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | Several trees were downed by seventy mph winds in Peever. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | Many trees were downed southwest of Peever. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Peever | - | 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 2011 | Flood | Peever | - | 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 1994 | Hail | Peever | - | Several trees were downed by winds. |
| June 2025 | Flood | Peever | - | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Flood | Peever | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Flood | Peever | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Peever | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Peever | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Peever | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Flood | Peever | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Peever | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Flood | Peever | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Peever | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Peever | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peever Flats | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Goodwill | 6.3 miles | 6 | |
| Spring Grove | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Sisseton | 9.8 miles | 6 | |
| Wilmot | 10.6 miles | 6 | |
| Valley View Estates | 11.8 miles | 6 | |
| Hiawatha Beach | 12.2 miles | 8 | |
| Madsen Beach | 12.7 miles | 8 |
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 Peever | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q374292 | 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 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.





