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Rosholt, South Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rosholt town. It lies in ZIP code area 57260. The Survey maps it on the Rosholt quadrangle. 379 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Rosholt within Roberts County

Population over time

2 figures

Rosholt fell from 423 to 379 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
2010423
2020379-44 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Rosholt in 2002, burning about 110 acres in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
10 December 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution110 acresSisseton AgencyPOWERCRP

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rosholt: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Braun Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Braun Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whiterock Colony PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roberts County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosholt in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRosholt-A farmer estimated winds up to 60 mph in combination with the hail caused scattered crop damage.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRosholt-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts had caused tree damage with a number of branches down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRosholt-Trees were downed across Rosholt by estimated 80 mph wind gusts.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRosholt-An estimated ninety mph wind or higher destroyed two cabins. One was destroyed by the wind with the other one destroyed when a large tree fell onto it.
August 2014Flash FloodRosholt-Four to five inches of rain caused flash flooding on city streets and several county roads in and around Rosholt.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRosholt-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of sixty mph downed trees and caused power outages.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRosholt-Seventy mph winds caused crop and tree damage from Rosholt to four miles north of Rosholt.
September 2004Tornado (F2)Rosholt-The storm entered South Dakota from Traverse county, Minnesota where it produced a tornado. The storm produced a second tornado as it crossed Lake Traverse into South Dakota. This tornado was stronger and destroyed a house, a mobile home, and a travel trailer. Another house and travel trailer were damaged and a shed was also ripped apart. The tornado also killed three cattle.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindRosholt-Strong thunderstorm winds flattened an old granary and unrolled large round bales. Many trees in the area were uprooted and twisted. Also, wind driven hail stripped corn and bashed beans.
July 2025HailRosholt-no account filed
August 2013HailRosholt-no account filed
May 2012HailRosholt-no account filed
June 2006HailRosholt-no account filed
July 2006HailRosholt-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRosholt-no account filed
June 2002HailRosholt-no account filed
August 2002HailRosholt-no account filed
August 2002HailRosholt-no account filed
August 2002HailRosholt-no account filed
August 2001HailRosholt-no account filed
August 2001HailRosholt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roberts 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
Victor5.4 miles9
White Rock Colony6.5 miles13
White Rock9.1 miles13
Diamond9.2 miles13
New Effington10.0 miles9
Hammer15.4 miles6
Claire City19.7 miles6
Sisseton21.9 miles6

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 RosholtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2062880The 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 1257489. 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.