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Wall, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Wall town. It lies in ZIP code area 57790. The Survey maps it on the Wall quadrangle. 699 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,825 feet above sea level.

Wall within Pennington County

Population over time

2 figures

Wall fell from 766 to 699 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
2010766
2020699-67 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Wall between 1996 and 2020, burning about 3,193 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
18 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionNEW UNDERWOOD
28 August 2001Naturalunder an acreNebraska National ForestCUTBANK
24 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSHOOTING RANGE FIRE
23 August 2020Natural9.0 acresNebraska National ForestWOLF IT
22 August 2001Natural2.0 acresNebraska National ForestCROOKED CREEK
19 August 2003Natural285 acresNebraska National ForestWOLF
14 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHREIBER
6 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionLINK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pennington County

Storms near this place

60 of 90 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wall in 90 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 57 thunderstorm wind, 31 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2013HailWall$400,000Hail damaged houses and vehicles.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWall$30,000Part of the hardware store roof was blown into a hotel next door, breaking windows and damaging the outside wall. No one was hurt.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindWall$10,000no account filed
September 2011HailWall$500Hail broke automobile windows at mile marker 117 on Interstate 90.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindWall-SD mesonet recorded wind gust at this location.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWall-Estimated wind gust report.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWall-Storm spotter estimated wind gust report.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWall-SD Mesonet recorded wind gust.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWall-Lots of pea to marble size hail accompanied the storm.
June 2024HailWall-Wind gusts up to 50 mph also accompanied the storm.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts from a decaying thunderstorm spread across the area.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWall-The spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWall-A Badlands National Park ranger estimated wind gusts at 60 mph at the Pinnacles Ranger Station.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWall-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindWall-Tree limbs were broken by the strong wind gusts.
May 2007Heavy RainWall-Two to four inches of rain fell near the Badlands National Park in far southeastern Pennington County.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWall-Dime sized hail also fell.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWall-Several tree limbs were blown down.
August 1997HailWall-MAJOR AUTOMOBILE DAMAGE REPORTED
June 1994HailWall-Some ranch buildings were damaged in Stanley County.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
May 2023HailWall-no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2021HailWall-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
July 2020HailWall-no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
August 2018HailWall-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
May 2016HailWall-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
May 2015HailWall-no account filed
August 2015Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
August 2015HailWall-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2015HailWall-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2010HailWall-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWall-no account filed
June 2009HailWall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pennington 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
Quinn6.1 miles8
Wasta12.0 miles8
Creighton18.2 miles7
Conata18.4 miles9
Owanka18.4 miles9
Wicksville19.7 miles9
Imlay20.6 miles9
Scenic22.2 miles10

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 WallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2035569The 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 1262653. 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.