Ramona, South Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Badus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57054. The Survey maps it on the Ramona quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,818 feet above sea level.
On record in Ramona
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 2 records
- St. Ann's Catholic Church of Baduslisted 1979
- St. Williams Catholic Churchlisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresRamona fell from 174 to 159 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 | 174 | |
| 2020 | 159 | -15 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Ramona quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ramona between 1999 and 2009, burning about 35 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 12 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Ramona Volunteer Fire Department | CLEMS |
| 8 November 1999 | Smoking | 2.5 acres | Ramona Volunteer Fire Department | PIZZA HUT FIRE |
| 15 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ramona Volunteer Fire Department | LD'S PASTURE |
| 19 October 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Madison Wetland Management District | VANHOVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramona in 30 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 17 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Ramona | $100,000 | Flooding of lakes and lowlands, including Lake Madison and farmland, continued in the county through April. While flooding of small streams abated, lake and lowland flooding continued with very slow improvement. Many roads remained flooded, with additional damage. High water and groundwater levels resulting from record precipitation in the previous year was the main reason that the flooding either grew worse or improved so slowly. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Ramona | $50,000 | Persistent moderate to heavy rain caused flooding of fields and other lowlands, including several roads, homes, and businesses. This flooding lasted for almost two days, and was aggravated locally by additional storms during that time. Some roads were damaged or washed out. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused damage to trees and a house. Eight to twelve inch diameter tree limbs were broken off. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Ramona | - | Hail was mostly pea to dime sized, but several were as large as a quarter. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Ramona | - | Large hail was accompanied by 50 mph wind gusts. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees blown down. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Ramona | - | Melting of a heavy winter snow cover caused flooding of lowlands, lakes, and small streams, including considerable flooding of farmland and campgrounds. The flooded lakes included Lake Madison. Numerous roads in the county were flooded. Some of the roads were closed, and some were washed out in spots. Some small bridges were damaged. The flooding onset was rapid for a snow melt flood due to high water and groundwater levels from record precipitation in the year 2010. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Ramona | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees snapped off. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree and power line damage, including numerous trees and power poles blown down. The damage resulted in power outages in the area. The wind also damaged corn crops. The amount of property and crop damage was not known. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including one inch diameter branches broken off. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Ramona | - | Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of damage was not known, as it was expected that much of the damaged corn would recover. Most of the crop damage was observed in the Nunda area. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Ramona | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ramona | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junius | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Prairie Village | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Madison | 9.5 miles | 9 | |
| Nunda | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Prairie Queen (historical) | 11.1 miles | 9 | |
| Winfred | 11.4 miles | 6 | |
| Chautauqua | 12.7 miles | 6 | |
| Rutland | 13.4 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 Ramona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2765216 | 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 1265686. 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.



