Verdon, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Verdon town. It lies in ZIP code area 57434. The Survey maps it on the Conde quadrangle. 3 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresVerdon fell from 5 to 3 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 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 3 | -2 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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
- 1958 USGS Conde quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Verdon between 1999 and 2017, burning about 913 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | LARRY HEARNEN |
| 16 September 2002 | Other causes | 5.0 acres | Stratford Volunteer Fire Department | GARDEN PRAIRIE 26 |
| 9 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 320 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | ROGER BALL |
| 6 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | DALE WASHNOK |
| 6 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | DOUG SOMBKE |
| 30 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 24 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SECTION 16 |
| 1 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 30 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 125 acres | Conde Volunteer Fire Department | MIKE FICK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verdon in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Verdon | - | Silos were dented and augers were blown over 100 feet from large hail and estimated 80 mph winds. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Verdon | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Randolph | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Ferney | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Hutterville Colony | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Stratford | 12.1 miles | 10 | |
| Groton | 14.0 miles | 11 | |
| James | 16.5 miles | 11 | |
| Nahon | 19.1 miles | 11 | |
| Bath Corner | 19.3 miles | 11 |
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 Verdon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q958243 | 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 1258742. 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.





