BlockBefore

Turton, South Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Turton town. It lies in ZIP code area 57477. The Survey maps it on the Turton quadrangle. 55 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Turton within Spink County

On record in Turton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Turton grew from 48 to 55 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
201048
202055+7 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Turton between 1999 and 2013, burning about 538 acres in total. 2 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Smoking1

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
25 September 2000Debris and open burning80 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentRICHARD WORLIE
22 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresSpink CountyWAYNE WRIGHT
20 August 1999Debris and open burning15 acresTurton Volunteer Fire DepartmentMILES
6 June 2002Natural20 acresTurton Volunteer Fire DepartmentROLAND B.
21 May 2005Naturalunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
10 April 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentDOYLE TRUCK
11 November 2001Debris and open burning10 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentDANNY MILES
29 October 2006Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spink County

Storms near this place

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turton in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 22 hail, 12 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTurton-A CO-OP observer reported a grain leg at the local grain elevator was tipped over due to high winds.
June 2020Tornado (EF0)Turton-A tornado touched down briefly east southeast of Turton with no damage occurring.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindTurton-Estimated sixty mph winds took some shingles off a building and caused some minor corn damage.
May 2017HailTurton-Some golf ball hail fell east of Turton.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTurton-Seventy mph winds were estimated.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindTurton-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of seventy to eighty mph was reported.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindTurton-Numerous trees along with power lines were downed by eighty mph winds. A building was also moved fifty feet off of it's foundation.
August 2023HailTurton-no account filed
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTurton-no account filed
July 2021HailTurton-no account filed
July 2021HailTurton-no account filed
June 2020HailTurton-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTurton-no account filed
March 2012HailTurton-no account filed
August 2008HailTurton-no account filed
June 2006HailTurton-no account filed
June 2005HailTurton-no account filed
June 2003HailTurton-no account filed
August 2003HailTurton-no account filed
June 2002HailTurton-no account filed
August 2002HailTurton-no account filed
June 2001HailTurton-no account filed
June 2001HailTurton-no account filed
June 2001HailTurton-no account filed
May 2000HailTurton-no account filed
May 2000HailTurton-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindTurton-no account filed
August 1999HailTurton-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindTurton-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindTurton-no account filed
July 1997HailTurton-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindTurton-no account filed
July 1996HailTurton-no account filed
August 1993HailTurton-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindTurton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spink 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
Conde7.4 miles11
Camrose Colony10.4 miles10
Doland10.6 miles10
Brentford14.3 miles10
Frankfort16.3 miles10
Clark Colony19.0 miles8
Glendale Colony20.0 miles10
Gallup21.2 miles10

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 TurtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2221387The 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 1265705. 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.