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Stickney, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Stickney town. It lies in ZIP code area 57375. The Survey maps it on the Stickney quadrangle. 321 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,644 feet above sea level.

Stickney within Aurora County

On record in Stickney

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

Stickney grew from 284 to 321 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
2010284
2020321+37 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stickney between 2009 and 2017, burning about 26 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresAurora CountySAFAR FIRE
15 August 2017Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionFIRE
20 March 2016Debris and open burning22 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNONE

Every fire recorded in Aurora County

Storms near this place

45 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stickney in 45 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 22 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStickney$35,000A pole barn was significantly damaged. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStickney$30,000Extensive damage occurred to a grain bin, with minor damage done to the roof of a pole barn. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStickney$25,000Cattle and calf shelters were damaged. Several calves were killed. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindStickney$20,000Extensive tree damage in Stickney. A tree fell onto power lines near a transformer, causing a power outage in town.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindStickney$10,000Thunderstorm winds tipped over a semi trailer, blew feed bunks 100 yards, and blew down several trees.
June 2020Flash FloodStickney$5,000Several county roads were flooded. Rainfall overnight and through the morning totalled 3.94 inches at Corsica and 3.33 inches 10 miles west of Dimock. Property damage costs are rough estimates.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindStickney$1,000Strong winds blew pickup truck sideways and downed several larger limbs.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindStickney$250Thunderstorms winds removed several tree limbs to 3 inches diameter.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindStickney-Several 4 inch diameter tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 63 mph were measured by a personal weather station 5 miles north-northeast of Stickney.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds were measured by a personal weather station 5 miles north-northeast of Stickney.
June 2021HailStickney-In addition to the hail, thunderstorms winds were estimated to briefly reach around 50 mph as the hail fell.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindStickney-Personal weather station KSDPLANK3 measured a peak wind gust of 68 mph.
August 2014HailStickney-Golf Ball size hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops.
July 2014HailStickney-Large hail, driven by damaging winds, broke windows and damaged vehicles and siding. The amount of damage was not known.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, and damaged roofs. The amount of damage was not known. The winds were accompanied by golf ball size hail.
August 2014HailStickney-Hail was mostly dime or smaller size, with a few stones as large as half dollars.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds contributed to an unknown amount of crop damage. The winds were accompanied by large hail.
July 2010HailStickney-Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage. The hail was accompanied by damaging winds.
August 2009HailStickney-Large hail broke windows, dented vehicles and siding, and damaged crops. The amount of property and crop damage was not known.
August 2009HailStickney-Large hail covered the ground.
June 2008HailStickney-Large hail was accompanied by heavy rain.
July 2008HailStickney-Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known.
August 2007Flash FloodStickney-Heavy rain of 3 to 6 inches caused flooding of roads and fields. Basements were flooded in Stickney.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few limbs blown down. The winds were accompanied by pea size hail.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage.
June 2003HailStickney-Large hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph winds.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds in an apparent downburst pulled a steel roof from a publishing company building and blew it into a power pole, breaking the pole at its base, and leaving residents of Stickney without power for over two hours. Part of the roof was pushed into trees near the building. A television tower at the side of the building was twisted and blown down. A nearby shed was destroyed, and the vehicle parked inside damaged. The damage was very localized with nearby corn crops blown down, next to undamaged corn.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindStickney-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 6 to 8 inch diameter limbs broken off, and a 50 foot high tree broken off.
July 1998HailStickney-Large hail, accompanied by 55 mph winds and heavy rain, damaged crops over the southern edge of Aurora County.
June 2021HailStickney-no account filed
August 2021HailStickney-no account filed
June 2010HailStickney-no account filed
April 2007HailStickney-no account filed
June 2007HailStickney-no account filed
June 2007HailStickney-no account filed
July 2006HailStickney-no account filed
August 2004HailStickney-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindStickney-no account filed
August 2002HailStickney-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Stickney-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Stickney-no account filed
May 1998HailStickney-no account filed
June 1996HailStickney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Aurora 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
Plankinton9.1 miles11
Aurora Center9.2 miles8
White Lake17.6 miles8
Storla19.5 miles11

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 StickneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1866880The 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 1258346. 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.