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Tunerville, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Portland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57226. The Survey maps it on the Tunerville quadrangle.

Tunerville within Deuel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Tunerville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 211 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks1

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
12 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreClear Lake Volunteer Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
21 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresDeuel County72113 DITCH
1 July 2000Fireworksunder an acreClear Lake Volunteer Fire DepartmentNO NAME 212
23 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKULLMAN
14 May 2008Debris and open burning187 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
18 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresClear Lake Volunteer Fire Department479TH AVENUE
6 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression12062020
11 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTOHR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Deuel County

Storms near this place

19 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tunerville in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindTunerville-The South Dakota Department of Transportation mesonet station in Turnerville topped out at 68 mph.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindTunerville-The South Dakota Department of Transportation Mesonet station 4 miles north of Altamont recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2022Tornado (EF1)Tunerville-A tornado touched down on the northeast side of Lake Alice|causing damage to a hunting lodge property. Evidence was first|noted in a corn stubble field where stubble was broken and|flattened. North of the corn field, several trees were uprooted|or snapped at the base. North from there, the main lodge house|lost half the roof covering and several roof panels on the west|side of the house. This resulted in rain damage inside the lodge.|On the west side of the property a family was in a camper when|they received warnings and decided to leave for a sturdier|shelter nearby. Minutes after they left the camper, it was picked|up and dropped on its roof. The family was not injured.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTunerville-Sixty-five mph winds were estimated.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
June 2024HailTunerville-no account filed
June 2024HailTunerville-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindTunerville-no account filed
August 2017HailTunerville-no account filed
June 2015HailTunerville-no account filed
June 1999HailTunerville-no account filed
June 1998HailTunerville-no account filed
October 1996Tornado (F1)Tunerville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deuel 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
Altamont3.5 miles8
Moritz7.5 miles8
Goodwin8.9 miles9
Bemis9.6 miles8
Clear Lake10.0 miles8
Gary13.7 miles9
Brandt15.9 miles8
Toronto22.0 miles8

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 TunervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122592052The 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 1261149. 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.