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.
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
- 1973 USGS Tunerville quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clear Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Clear Lake Volunteer Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 21 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Deuel County | 72113 DITCH |
| 1 July 2000 | Fireworks | under an acre | Clear Lake Volunteer Fire Department | NO NAME 212 |
| 23 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KULLMAN |
| 14 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 187 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 18 April 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Clear Lake Volunteer Fire Department | 479TH AVENUE |
| 6 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 12062020 |
| 11 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STOHR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | The South Dakota Department of Transportation mesonet station in Turnerville topped out at 68 mph. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | The South Dakota Department of Transportation Mesonet station 4 miles north of Altamont recorded a wind gust of 60 mph. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | Sixty-five mph winds were estimated. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Tunerville | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Tunerville | - | 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.
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 Tunerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122592052 | 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 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.



