Troy, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57265. The Survey maps it on the Stockholm quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Stockholm quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
16 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 1999 and 2020, burning about 228 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 | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | Buffalo Volunteer Fire Department | RAY GILBERT |
| 31 August 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | South Shore Volunteer Fire Department | HIGHWAY 81 |
| 23 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | South Shore Volunteer Fire Department | MIETIS |
| 18 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KURTIS |
| 1 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 471ST AVE & 171ST ST |
| 11 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 11 June 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 11 May 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Troy: 6 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 | Troy | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Troy | - | Golf ball sized hail combined with seventy mph winds broke all of the windows out of the northwest side of the house and two other outbuildings. The paint was also chipped off the northwest sides of all three buildings. One hundred forty acres of corn was also destroyed by the hail and wind. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | Seventy mph winds brought down many large tree branches northeast of Troy. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Troy | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Troy | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Troy | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm | 5.5 miles | 6 | |
| Strandburg | 5.6 miles | 6 | |
| LaBolt | 10.0 miles | 6 | |
| Twin Brooks | 12.5 miles | 6 | |
| Marvin | 15.6 miles | 6 | |
| Revillo | 15.7 miles | 6 | |
| Albee | 16.6 miles | 6 | |
| Milbank | 17.5 miles | 6 |
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 Troy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23709434 | 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 1258625. 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.



