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Presho, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Presho City. It lies in ZIP code area 57568. It stands on Stony Butte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Presho quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,775 feet above sea level.

Presho within Lyman County

On record in Presho

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 figures

Presho fell from 497 to 472 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
2010497
2020472-25 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

20 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Presho between 2000 and 2020, burning about 2,431 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural2
Other causes2
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionELEVATOR
28 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use16 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPRESHO CA
16 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionPERRY COMP
21 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBALER FIRE
2 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBALE IN DITCH
31 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRIFFITH
3 July 2000Natural2.0 acresKennebec Volunteer Fire DepartmentFATE
3 July 2000Natural3.0 acresKennebec Volunteer Fire DepartmentSTUDT

Every fire recorded in Lyman 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 Presho: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Mowry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lyman County

Storms near this place

60 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Presho in 75 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 37 hail, 33 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPresho-The caller stated that they estimated the wind speed at 60 mph.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPresho-A caller stated that winds with the storms gusted to between 50 and 60 mph.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindPresho-Tree branches were snapped, ranging from small to large in size.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindPresho-Severe thunderstorm winds near 80 mph caused multiple semis to top over on Interstate 90. No injuries reported.
July 2019HailPresho-Golf ball size hail dented vehicles and broke windshields.
July 2019HailPresho-Golf ball size hail and strong winds caused vehicle damage and brought down some small tree branches.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindPresho-Estimated seventy mph winds flattened crops.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPresho-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPresho-Sixty-five mph winds were estimated.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindPresho-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPresho-Seventy mph winds were estimated.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindPresho-Sixty mph winds broke off the top of a small tree.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPresho-A camper and heating unit at the school was blown over.
May 2013HailPresho-The combination of golf ball size hail and very strong winds resulted in leaves stripped from all the trees.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPresho-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Presho-A narrow weak tornado touched down briefly southwest of Presho with no damage reported.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPresho-Eighty mph winds downed several grain bins along with knocking a few semis off of Interstate-90. The winds also downed some power lines and poles along with destroying a hanger. The two planes in the hanger were damaged.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindPresho-Ninety mph winds completely ripped apart a golf clubhouse east of Presho. A car was also damaged by the debris.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPresho-Eighty mph winds destroyed or damaged many grain bins and caused damage to several other buildings in and around Presho. A large sign, twenty power poles, along with many trees were downed in Presho. There were also several broken house and car windows from hail and high winds.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPresho-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindPresho-Seventy mph winds blew over a couple semi tractor trailers on interstate-90 just south of Presho.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPresho-High winds downed many branches and tipped over a horse trailer.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindPresho-Strong winds took many large tree branches down and also damaged a roof in Presho.
July 2003Flash FloodPresho-Heavy rainfall of over 3 inches fell south of Presho flooding a county road south of Interstate 90 for several hours.
July 2003Flash FloodPresho-Heavy rainfall of over 3 inches caused flash flooding on a county road southwest of Presho. The floodwaters eroded away a good part of the road.
July 2002Tornado (F0)Presho-A tornado touched down briefly north of Presho and caused no damage. Path length and width were estimated.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
August 2019HailPresho-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
July 2018HailPresho-no account filed
July 2018HailPresho-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
August 2018HailPresho-no account filed
August 2018HailPresho-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
April 2014FloodPresho-no account filed
August 2013HailPresho-no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
May 2011HailPresho-no account filed
May 2011HailPresho-no account filed
May 2011HailPresho-no account filed
May 2011HailPresho-no account filed
July 2010HailPresho-no account filed
May 2008HailPresho-no account filed
August 2006HailPresho-no account filed
August 2006HailPresho-no account filed
August 2006HailPresho-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
May 2004HailPresho-no account filed
May 2004HailPresho-no account filed
May 2004HailPresho-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPresho-no account filed
July 2004HailPresho-no account filed
July 2003HailPresho-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyman 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
Kennebec10.4 miles8
Vivian12.4 miles6
Lyman17.0 miles8
Reliance24.2 miles8
Council House27.5 miles8
Lower Brule27.9 miles8
Oacoma36.0 miles11
Iona42.1 miles11

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 PreshoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2225753The 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 1257226. 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.