Roslyn, South Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Roslyn town. It lies in ZIP code area 57261. The Survey maps it on the Roslyn quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,864 feet above sea level.
On record in Roslyn
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
Roslyn Auditoriumlisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresRoslyn fell from 183 to 181 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 | 183 | |
| 2020 | 181 | -2 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Roslyn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Roslyn between 1999 and 2013, burning about 44 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Sisseton Agency | JOHNSON |
| 14 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | WHITE |
| 1 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | OPITZ |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roslyn in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Hail | Roslyn | $500 | Roof shingles were ripped off of a house. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | $500 | Roof shingles were ripped off of a house. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | The caller stated that winds, estimated at 60 mph, with nickel size hail, caused damage to crops. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | The Fire Department in Roslyn reported numerous trees down in town. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | A trained spotter reported thunderstorm winds damaged the awning on a camper trailer. |
| August 2025 | Flood | Roslyn | - | Heavy rain caused water to run over South Dakota Highway 27 one mile south of Pierpont. Water was also reported over 422nd ave, 3 miles east of Pierpont, where a vehicle hydroplaned into the ditch. One of the rural county roads 5 miles southeast of Pierpont was partly washed out. Roadside ditches were full across the better part of northwest and north central Day county, with water overtopping several additional roads. 3.6 inches of rainfall was measured 6 miles east southeast of Pierpont by a resident, while a trained spotter 1 mile south of Roslyn recorded 4.64 inches. A resident 7 miles west of Roslyn would go on to estimate they received 5 inches of total rainfall. |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Roslyn | - | The fire department reported a brief tornado touchdown. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | The fire department reported trees down in Roslyn due to 60 to 70 mph estimated winds. |
| October 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Several trees were downed by estimated 70 mph winds. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Estimated sixty mph winds occurred. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Sixty mph winds occurred again with another thunderstorm in Roslyn. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Roslyn | - | Very heavy rains of over 4 inches brought water over several roads southwest of Roslyn. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Many trees were downed along with many branches in and around Roslyn. Several cars and homes received damage from the fallen trees and branches. The grain elevator was leaning over some in town. A semi truck was also tipped over. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated in Roslyn. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Seventy mph winds were estimated in Roslyn with no damage reported. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Eighty mph winds brought many trees down. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Roslyn | - | Golfball to baseball size hail broke many windows, damaged siding, roofs, and several vehicles in and near Roslyn. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Large branches were downed by the high winds. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Roslyn | - | Heavy rain caused flash flooding on County road 17 in several locations near Roslyn. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Winds gusting to 70 mph downed many large branches in Roslyn. Power was also knocked out for a time in town. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Winds to 70 mph brought down many tree limbs. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | Two grain bins were blown over from the 65 mph winds. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roslyn | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Roslyn | - | 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.
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 Roslyn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2946650 | 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 1257490. 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.



