Vienna, South Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Vienna town. It lies in ZIP code area 57271. The Survey maps it on the Vienna West quadrangle. 49 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,834 feet above sea level.
On record in Vienna
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
- Good Hope Lutheran Churchlisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresVienna grew from 45 to 49 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 49 | +4 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Vienna West quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Watertown 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 Vienna between 1999 and 2016, burning about 163 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 1 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Waubay National Wildlife Refuge | KRAMER |
| 8 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SOUTH SLOUGH |
| 4 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Bradley Volunteer Fire Department | DAVE FIWSTED |
| 20 April 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CARGILL BUNKER |
| 2 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TONY TREE FIRE |
| 17 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BRENDEN |
| 13 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BRENDAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vienna in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna | - | The mesonet weather station in Mayfield Colony measured a 68 mph wind gusts, which damaged a machine shed. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna | - | Tree branches were reported down in the city of Vienna. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna | - | An estimated 60 mph wind was reported. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna | - | Eighty mph winds downed several trees which blocked the highway. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Vienna | - | Dime size hail falling for several minutes piled up into 1 to 2 feet drifts in some spots. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Vienna | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Vienna | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Vienna | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Vienna | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vienna | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Vienna | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfield Colony | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Naples | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Willow Lake | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Success (historical) | 9.3 miles | 8 | |
| Elrod | 13.2 miles | 8 | |
| Silver Lake Colony | 13.4 miles | 8 | |
| Melham | 14.0 miles | 8 | |
| Collins Colony | 14.9 miles | 8 |
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 Vienna | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2287208 | 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 1258753. 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.



