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.
Population over time
2 figuresWall 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 766 | |
| 2020 | 699 | -67 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 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.
- 1955 USGS Hot Springs quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Wall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Wall quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 1996Regional 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | NEW UNDERWOOD |
| 28 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Nebraska National Forest | CUTBANK |
| 24 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SHOOTING RANGE FIRE |
| 23 August 2020 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Nebraska National Forest | WOLF IT |
| 22 August 2001 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Nebraska National Forest | CROOKED CREEK |
| 19 August 2003 | Natural | 285 acres | Nebraska National Forest | WOLF |
| 14 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SCHREIBER |
| 6 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | LINK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 90 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Hail | Wall | $400,000 | Hail damaged houses and vehicles. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | $30,000 | Part of the hardware store roof was blown into a hotel next door, breaking windows and damaging the outside wall. No one was hurt. |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2011 | Hail | Wall | $500 | Hail broke automobile windows at mile marker 117 on Interstate 90. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | SD mesonet recorded wind gust at this location. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Estimated wind gust report. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Storm spotter estimated wind gust report. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | SD Mesonet recorded wind gust. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Lots of pea to marble size hail accompanied the storm. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Wall | - | Wind gusts up to 50 mph also accompanied the storm. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts from a decaying thunderstorm spread across the area. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | The spotter estimated wind gusts around 60 mph. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | A Badlands National Park ranger estimated wind gusts at 60 mph at the Pinnacles Ranger Station. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts estimated at 70 mph. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Tree limbs were broken by the strong wind gusts. |
| May 2007 | Heavy Rain | Wall | - | Two to four inches of rain fell near the Badlands National Park in far southeastern Pennington County. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Dime sized hail also fell. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | Several tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Wall | - | MAJOR AUTOMOBILE DAMAGE REPORTED |
| June 1994 | Hail | Wall | - | Some ranch buildings were damaged in Stanley County. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wall | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Wall | - | 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 Wall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2035569 | 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 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.


