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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.

Verdon within Brown County

Population over time

2 figures

Verdon 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.

YearPeople Change
20105
20203-2 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

16 since 1999

Regional 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Other causes1

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
27 September 2000Debris and open burning160 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentLARRY HEARNEN
16 September 2002Other causes5.0 acresStratford Volunteer Fire DepartmentGARDEN PRAIRIE 26
9 August 1999Debris and open burning320 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentROGER BALL
6 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentDALE WASHNOK
6 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use50 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentDOUG SOMBKE
30 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use24 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSECTION 16
1 June 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
30 May 2002Debris and open burning125 acresConde Volunteer Fire DepartmentMIKE FICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2021Thunderstorm WindVerdon-Silos were dented and augers were blown over 100 feet from large hail and estimated 80 mph winds.
June 2006HailVerdon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Randolph5.9 miles11
Ferney6.0 miles10
Hutterville Colony6.1 miles10
Stratford12.1 miles10
Groton14.0 miles11
James16.5 miles11
Nahon19.1 miles11
Bath Corner19.3 miles11

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 VerdonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q958243The 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.