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.
Population over time
2 figuresRosholt 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 423 | |
| 2020 | 379 | -44 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1915 USGS White Rock quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS White Rock quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Rosholt quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Rosholt quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2002Regional 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/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 December 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 110 acres | Sisseton Agency | POWERCRP |
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braun Pit #1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Braun Pit #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Whiterock Colony Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | A farmer estimated winds up to 60 mph in combination with the hail caused scattered crop damage. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts had caused tree damage with a number of branches down. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | Trees were downed across Rosholt by estimated 80 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Rosholt | - | Four to five inches of rain caused flash flooding on city streets and several county roads in and around Rosholt. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of sixty mph downed trees and caused power outages. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | Seventy mph winds caused crop and tree damage from Rosholt to four miles north of Rosholt. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | 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 2025 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Rosholt | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Rosholt | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| White Rock Colony | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| White Rock | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Diamond | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| New Effington | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Hammer | 15.4 miles | 6 | |
| Claire City | 19.7 miles | 6 | |
| Sisseton | 21.9 miles | 6 |
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 Rosholt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2062880 | 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 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.






