Quinn, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Quinn town. It lies in ZIP code area 57775. The Survey maps it on the Wall quadrangle. 63 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,612 feet above sea level.
On record in Quinn
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
Quinn Methodist Churchlisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresQuinn grew from 54 to 63 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 | 54 | |
| 2020 | 63 | +9 (+17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Wall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Wall quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
21 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Quinn between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,881 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | CUTBANK |
| 24 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SHOOTING RANGE FIRE |
| 24 August 2012 | Natural | 21 acres | Nebraska National Forest | CROOKED CREEK |
| 23 August 2020 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Nebraska National Forest | WOLF IT |
| 22 August 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska National Forest | CROOKED CREEK |
| 20 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 19 August 2003 | Natural | 285 acres | Nebraska National Forest | WOLF |
| 15 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EXIT 116 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quinn in 39 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 24 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | $200,000 | Very strong winds destroyed an airplane hangar, flipped over farm equipment and a horse trailer, uprooted trees, and caused some damage to other buildings in the area. |
| June 2008 | Flood | Quinn | $100,000 | Flooding occurred around Quinn, Wall, and Creighton. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | $5,000 | Wind-driven hail caused minor damage to automobiles. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Quinn | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Quinn | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | Two semis were overturned on I-90 at mile markers 114. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | Wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | The spotter estimated wind gusts at 70 mph. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Quinn | - | Hail to quarter size covered the ground. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | A camper tipped over on Interstate 90 near mile marker 120. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph along Interstate-90. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | Wind gusts estimated at 80 mph. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Quinn | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | Power poles were downed by winds. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Quinn | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Quinn | - | 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.
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 Quinn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2197383 | 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 1262249. 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.


