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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.

Quinn within Pennington County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Quinn 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.

YearPeople Change
201054
202063+9 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

21 since 2001

Regional 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/undetermined10
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 August 2001Naturalunder an acreNebraska National ForestCUTBANK
24 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSHOOTING RANGE FIRE
24 August 2012Natural21 acresNebraska National ForestCROOKED CREEK
23 August 2020Natural9.0 acresNebraska National ForestWOLF IT
22 August 2001Natural2.0 acresNebraska National ForestCROOKED CREEK
20 August 2007Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
19 August 2003Natural285 acresNebraska National ForestWOLF
15 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionEXIT 116

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

39 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindQuinn$200,000Very 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 2008FloodQuinn$100,000Flooding occurred around Quinn, Wall, and Creighton.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindQuinn$5,000Wind-driven hail caused minor damage to automobiles.
May 2011HailQuinn$5,000no account filed
May 2011HailQuinn$2,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindQuinn-Two semis were overturned on I-90 at mile markers 114.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindQuinn-Wind gusts were estimated at around 60 mph.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindQuinn-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindQuinn-The spotter estimated wind gusts at 70 mph.
May 2020HailQuinn-Hail to quarter size covered the ground.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindQuinn-A camper tipped over on Interstate 90 near mile marker 120.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindQuinn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindQuinn-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph along Interstate-90.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindQuinn-Wind gusts estimated at 80 mph.
September 2005HailQuinn-Hail covered the ground.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindQuinn-Power poles were downed by winds.
May 2024HailQuinn-no account filed
May 2024HailQuinn-no account filed
April 2024HailQuinn-no account filed
April 2022HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2022HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2022HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2022HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2021HailQuinn-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindQuinn-no account filed
June 2019HailQuinn-no account filed
August 2018HailQuinn-no account filed
May 2016HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2013HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2012HailQuinn-no account filed
July 2010HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2008HailQuinn-no account filed
June 2008HailQuinn-no account filed
July 2005HailQuinn-no account filed
May 2004HailQuinn-no account filed
July 2001HailQuinn-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindQuinn-no account filed
July 2000HailQuinn-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindQuinn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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
Wall6.1 miles8
Wasta17.8 miles8
Conata18.2 miles9
Creighton18.9 miles7
Imlay23.5 miles9
Owanka24.6 miles9
Wicksville25.6 miles9
Scenic26.9 miles10

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 QuinnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2197383The 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.