Toronto, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Toronto town. It lies in ZIP code area 57268. The Survey maps it on the Toronto quadrangle. 196 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,001 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresToronto fell from 212 to 196 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 | 212 | |
| 2020 | 196 | -16 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1970 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Toronto between 1992 and 2012, burning about 170 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 | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | EKERN |
| 25 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | OLSEN FIRE |
| 5 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | UNKNOWN |
| 23 March 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | KADINGER |
| 30 November 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DAHL FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toronto in 25 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 13 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | A trained spotter estimated winds topped 60 mph resulting in bent trees and several fallen branches. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | Several 2 to 4 inch tree branches were downed in town. The time of the wind was estimated based on radar. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | Three trees were downed in Toronto by estimated seventy mph winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | An estimated seventy mph wind along with hail layed downed and damaged several acres of corn. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | Many branches were downed by the strong winds. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Toronto | - | The tornado only caused damage to the cornfield it traveled through. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | Eighty mph winds uprooted or snapped off thirty trees, broke off a power pole, damaged several buildings and three grain bins, and tipped over an auger. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | Winds gusting to 60 mph brought many tree branches down in Toronto. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | A line of thunderstorms producing straight line winds gusting to around 75 mph destroyed a 40 by 120 foot pole building 3 miles east of Clear Lake and a cap was blown off the silo. In addition, there was widespread damage across Deuel County to several outbuildings, trees were knocked over and power lines were blown down producing power outages. Some large trees fell and damaged homes in Bemis, Gary, Toronto and Clear Lake. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Toronto | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Toronto | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astoria | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Brandt | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Johnsonville | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Clear Lake | 12.1 miles | 8 | |
| Gary | 18.1 miles | 9 | |
| Moritz | 18.5 miles | 8 | |
| Altamont | 18.6 miles | 8 | |
| Bemis | 21.1 miles | 8 |
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 Toronto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2688228 | 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 1258580. 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.



