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South Shore, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in South Shore town. It lies in ZIP code area 57263. The Survey maps it on the South Shore quadrangle. 189 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,877 feet above sea level.

South Shore within Codington County

On record in South Shore

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

Population over time

2 figures

South Shore fell from 225 to 189 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
2010225
2020189-36 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of South Shore between 1999 and 2016, burning about 399 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Smoking1

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
18 September 2000Natural30 acresSouth Shore Volunteer Fire DepartmentREDLIN
11 September 1999Natural15 acresSouth Shore Volunteer Fire DepartmentFROSLIE
6 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionN OF WATERTOWN
5 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresBuffalo Volunteer Fire DepartmentRAY GILBERT
31 August 2000Smokingunder an acreSouth Shore Volunteer Fire DepartmentHIGHWAY 81
3 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionN OF SS
3 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEdgemont Volunteer Fire DepartmentMP 492
17 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKadoka Volunteer Fire DepartmentJERRY GRIMES PASTURE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Codington 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 South Shore: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Codington County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Shore in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2025Flash FloodSouth Shore-The Codington County Emergency manager reports water has filled the ditches and is up to the bottoms of several bridges on the main highways with water over some secondary roads northeast of Watertown. Photos were also submitted via Facebook of flooded residences in northeast Watertown.
June 2023Tornado (EF0)South Shore-A photo of the landspout was submitted via social media.
September 2021HailSouth Shore-Hail was large enough to dent vehicles.
June 2015HailSouth Shore-Large hail broke a window and flattened some vegetable plants.
July 2011Flash FloodSouth Shore-Heavy rains of over 3 inches brought flash flooding of several roads west of South Shore.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindSouth Shore-Damaging thunderstorm winds downed two cottonwood trees and destroyed a fishing dock.
July 2023HailSouth Shore-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Shore-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Shore-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Shore-no account filed
April 2019FloodSouth Shore-no account filed
August 2016HailSouth Shore-no account filed
July 2015Funnel CloudSouth Shore-no account filed
July 2011HailSouth Shore-no account filed
July 2011HailSouth Shore-no account filed
April 2010HailSouth Shore-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSouth Shore-no account filed
June 2004HailSouth Shore-no account filed
August 2004HailSouth Shore-no account filed
July 2003HailSouth Shore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Codington 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
Waverly7.7 miles8
Rauville12.8 miles8
Kranzburg14.7 miles8
Green Trees Subdivision16.3 miles8
Watertown17.3 miles8
North Shore18.3 miles8
Appleby21.0 miles8
Florence21.5 miles7

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 South ShoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1573445The 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 1258216. 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.