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.
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
Lincoln Houselisted 2002
William P. Smith Houselisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresStickney 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 284 | |
| 2020 | 321 | +37 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1899 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Stickney quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Mitchell quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 23 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.2 acres | Aurora County | SAFAR FIRE |
| 15 August 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | FIRE |
| 20 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NONE |
Storms near this place
45 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | $35,000 | A pole barn was significantly damaged. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | $30,000 | Extensive damage occurred to a grain bin, with minor damage done to the roof of a pole barn. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | $25,000 | Cattle and calf shelters were damaged. Several calves were killed. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | $20,000 | Extensive tree damage in Stickney. A tree fell onto power lines near a transformer, causing a power outage in town. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds tipped over a semi trailer, blew feed bunks 100 yards, and blew down several trees. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Stickney | $5,000 | Several 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | $1,000 | Strong winds blew pickup truck sideways and downed several larger limbs. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | $250 | Thunderstorms winds removed several tree limbs to 3 inches diameter. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Several 4 inch diameter tree limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts as high as 63 mph were measured by a personal weather station 5 miles north-northeast of Stickney. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Thunderstorm winds were measured by a personal weather station 5 miles north-northeast of Stickney. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Stickney | - | In addition to the hail, thunderstorms winds were estimated to briefly reach around 50 mph as the hail fell. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Personal weather station KSDPLANK3 measured a peak wind gust of 68 mph. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Stickney | - | Golf Ball size hail caused an unknown amount of damage to vehicles and crops. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail, driven by damaging winds, broke windows and damaged vehicles and siding. The amount of damage was not known. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Stickney | - | Hail was mostly dime or smaller size, with a few stones as large as half dollars. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches blown down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Thunderstorm winds contributed to an unknown amount of crop damage. The winds were accompanied by large hail. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail caused an unknown amount of crop damage. The hail was accompanied by damaging winds. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail broke windows, dented vehicles and siding, and damaged crops. The amount of property and crop damage was not known. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail covered the ground. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail was accompanied by heavy rain. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail caused crop damage. The amount of crop damage was not known. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Stickney | - | Heavy rain of 3 to 6 inches caused flooding of roads and fields. Basements were flooded in Stickney. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few limbs blown down. The winds were accompanied by pea size hail. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail was accompanied by 40 to 50 mph winds. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including 6 to 8 inch diameter limbs broken off, and a 50 foot high tree broken off. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Stickney | - | Large hail, accompanied by 55 mph winds and heavy rain, damaged crops over the southern edge of Aurora County. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Stickney | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Stickney | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plankinton | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Aurora Center | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| White Lake | 17.6 miles | 8 | |
| Storla | 19.5 miles | 11 |
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 Stickney | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1866880 | 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 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.





