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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.

Ramona within Lake County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ramona 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.

YearPeople Change
2010174
2020159-15 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

6 since 1999

Regional 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
5 August 2009Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 July 2006Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 March 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresRamona Volunteer Fire DepartmentCLEMS
8 November 1999Smoking2.5 acresRamona Volunteer Fire DepartmentPIZZA HUT FIRE
15 November 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreRamona Volunteer Fire DepartmentLD'S PASTURE
19 October 2000Equipment and vehicle use20 acresMadison Wetland Management DistrictVANHOVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

30 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011FloodRamona$100,000Flooding 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 2014FloodRamona$50,000Persistent 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 2001Thunderstorm WindRamona$20,000Thunderstorm winds caused damage to trees and a house. Eight to twelve inch diameter tree limbs were broken off.
April 2024HailRamona-Hail was mostly pea to dime sized, but several were as large as a quarter.
June 2013HailRamona-Large hail was accompanied by 50 mph wind gusts.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRamona-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees blown down.
March 2011FloodRamona-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 2011Tornado (EF0)Ramona-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRamona-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several trees snapped off.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRamona-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindRamona-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 2005Thunderstorm WindRamona-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including one inch diameter branches broken off.
June 2001HailRamona-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 2023HailRamona-no account filed
July 2014HailRamona-no account filed
July 2009HailRamona-no account filed
July 2009HailRamona-no account filed
June 2008HailRamona-no account filed
July 2006HailRamona-no account filed
July 2006HailRamona-no account filed
June 2005HailRamona-no account filed
May 2005HailRamona-no account filed
June 2005HailRamona-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRamona-no account filed
June 2005HailRamona-no account filed
April 2004Thunderstorm WindRamona-no account filed
June 2002HailRamona-no account filed
June 2002HailRamona-no account filed
June 2002HailRamona-no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindRamona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Junius7.9 miles9
Prairie Village8.2 miles9
Madison9.5 miles9
Nunda10.9 miles9
Prairie Queen (historical)11.1 miles9
Winfred11.4 miles6
Chautauqua12.7 miles6
Rutland13.4 miles8

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 RamonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2765216The 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.