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.
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
- First Congregational Churchlisted 1979
- Turton Jaillisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresTurton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 48 | |
| 2020 | 55 | +7 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1894 USGS Conde quadrangle1:62500
- 1895 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Turton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 80 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | RICHARD WORLIE |
| 22 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Spink County | WAYNE WRIGHT |
| 20 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Turton Volunteer Fire Department | MILES |
| 6 June 2002 | Natural | 20 acres | Turton Volunteer Fire Department | ROLAND B. |
| 21 May 2005 | Natural | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 April 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | DOYLE TRUCK |
| 11 November 2001 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | DANNY MILES |
| 29 October 2006 | Smoking | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | A CO-OP observer reported a grain leg at the local grain elevator was tipped over due to high winds. |
| June 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | Turton | - | A tornado touched down briefly east southeast of Turton with no damage occurring. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | Estimated sixty mph winds took some shingles off a building and caused some minor corn damage. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Turton | - | Some golf ball hail fell east of Turton. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | Seventy mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of seventy to eighty mph was reported. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Turton | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conde | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Camrose Colony | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Doland | 10.6 miles | 10 | |
| Brentford | 14.3 miles | 10 | |
| Frankfort | 16.3 miles | 10 | |
| Clark Colony | 19.0 miles | 8 | |
| Glendale Colony | 20.0 miles | 10 | |
| Gallup | 21.2 miles | 10 |
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 Turton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2221387 | 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 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.





