Twin Brooks, South Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Twin Brooks town. It lies in ZIP code area 57269. The Survey maps it on the Twin Brooks quadrangle. 47 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,257 feet above sea level.
On record in Twin Brooks
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 1 record
- George and Mary Koch Farmlisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresTwin Brooks fell from 69 to 47 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 | 69 | |
| 2020 | 47 | -22 (-32%) |
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 Twin Brooks quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Twin Brooks between 2006 and 2020, burning about 28 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 21 November 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GRASS |
| 15 October 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HANSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Brooks in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Twin Brooks | - | Roughly 300 yards to the south of the farm a calf shed was picked|up and lofted to the north, over the shelterbelt on the south|side of the property. The calf shed would land in the feed lot|area and pushed up against a barn. A stave silo was moved off the|foundation about a foot, but otherwise remained erect. A pole barn |was severely damaged, with the west wall collapsed and the south wall|pushed in. A wood grain bin shifted off the foundation and was|pushed 300 feet to the north. Two empty grain bins were|destroyed. One tossed into a creek on the north end of the|property. The second was destroyed and lofted. A cattle trailer|at the same location was pushed about 100 feet before it was|rolled into the creek. Pieces of debris from the farm would be|found across Highway 12 and over a mile to the north northeast of|the property. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Brooks | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Twin Brooks | - | Very heavy rains brought a creek out of its banks with flooding over the road. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Brooks | - | Several trees were downed along with many tree branches south of Corona. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Twin Brooks | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Twin Brooks | - | 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 Twin Brooks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2619293 | 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 1258658. 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.



