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Summit, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Summit town. It lies in ZIP code area 57266. The Survey maps it on the Summit quadrangle. 288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,014 feet above sea level.

Summit within Roberts County

Population over time

2 figures

Summit grew from 288 to 288 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
2010288
20202880 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 2003 and 2017, burning about 160 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

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
4 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTRAIN
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionARTER
26 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Summit: 2 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Concrete Materials Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fiebelcrn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Roberts County

Storms near this place

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 29 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 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 2025FloodSummit-The South Dakota Department of Transportation reported water over the roadway.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit-A peak gust of 77 mph was recorded by the South Dakota Department of Transportation mesonet station one mile north-northwest of Summit.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindSummit-This report was recorded at mesonet station 55 a milee west-northwest of Summit.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindSummit-Several large trees along with many large branches were downed by eighty mph winds. A gazebo was also destroyed.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSummit-Sixty mph winds were estimated west of Summit.
May 2007FloodSummit-Heavy rains of 2 to 5 inches flooded several county roads mainly in western Roberts county into the evening of May 6th.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSummit-Winds to 80 mph caused some damage to a radio tower and destroyed the associated building with the transmitter blown off the concrete. Also, a large farm shed was destroyed north of Summit.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindSummit-The high winds blew a sheet of tin off of a building which damaged a car.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
July 2018HailSummit-no account filed
August 2016HailSummit-no account filed
August 2016HailSummit-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed
July 2015HailSummit-no account filed
July 2010HailSummit-no account filed
June 2009HailSummit-no account filed
June 2007HailSummit-no account filed
June 2003HailSummit-no account filed
June 2003HailSummit-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindSummit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roberts 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
Ortley8.7 miles7
Rudebusch Corner10.6 miles7
Spring Grove11.0 miles7
Wilmot11.9 miles6
Corona14.6 miles6
Peever Flats16.1 miles12
Peever17.0 miles12
Goodwill18.2 miles6

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 SummitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1553836The 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 1265700. 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.