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Wallace, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Eden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57272. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle. 91 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,778 feet above sea level.

Wallace within Codington County

Population over time

2 figures

Wallace grew from 85 to 91 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
201085
202091+6 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Wallace between 1999 and 2020, burning about 548 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
28 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNKNOWN
3 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSCHWINGER
23 April 2018Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHORNING
21 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRAZING ACERS
20 April 1999Debris and open burning30 acresIpswich Volunteer Fire DepartmentHOFFMAN
16 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined468 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
10 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionYEXLY
20 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionROBERTS

Every fire recorded in Codington County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wallace: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Codington County

Storms near this place

38 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace in 38 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 23 hail, 9 flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2019FloodWallace$471,700no account filed
April 2023FloodWallace$150,000no account filed
March 2019FloodWallace-Numerous county roads were closed due to flooding. On March 30th, residents around Lake Kampeska used approximately 8,000-10,000 sandbags to line their homes from the rising Lake.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWallace-Seventy-five mph winds downed several large trees.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWallace-Sixty-five mph winds were estimated.
April 2011FloodWallace-The snowmelt runoff caused Lake Kampeska to rise to nearly 44 inches overfull. The lake flooded several roads and also threatened many homes. Sandbagging was done to hold off the rising lake. Although, waves and ice chunks did eventually do some damage to homes. Also, many boat lifts were damaged. Mud creek near Rauville also went slightly above the flood stage of 9 feet to 9.64 feet for a couple days in early April.
May 2011HailWallace-Large hail caused some dents in a vehicle.
March 2011FloodWallace-Snowmelt flooding occurred across parts of Codington county including on Willow and Mud creeks for a short time at the end of the month. Crop and pastureland along with several roads were flooded from mid through late March. Lake Kampeska was also on the rise through the end of the month and beginning to threaten property.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWallace-Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWallace-Seventy mph winds uprooted several trees along with damaging some shingles.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWallace-Several trees were uprooted by seventy mph winds.
July 2000Tornado (F0)Wallace-A landspout tornado touched down briefly west of Wallace with no damage reported. Path length and width were estimated.
July 2023HailWallace-no account filed
July 2023HailWallace-no account filed
July 2021HailWallace-no account filed
June 2019FloodWallace-no account filed
August 2019FloodWallace-no account filed
May 2019FloodWallace-no account filed
July 2015HailWallace-no account filed
June 2013HailWallace-no account filed
May 2012HailWallace-no account filed
June 2012HailWallace-no account filed
March 2010FloodWallace-no account filed
July 2009HailWallace-no account filed
June 2006HailWallace-no account filed
June 2006HailWallace-no account filed
June 2006HailWallace-no account filed
June 2006HailWallace-no account filed
June 2006HailWallace-no account filed
June 2006HailWallace-no account filed
June 2006HailWallace-no account filed
June 2004HailWallace-no account filed
September 2003HailWallace-no account filed
July 2003HailWallace-no account filed
July 2003HailWallace-no account filed
July 2003HailWallace-no account filed
June 2000HailWallace-no account filed
August 1996HailWallace-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Codington 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
Florence8.0 miles7
Henry14.4 miles8
North Shore17.1 miles8
Kampeska18.0 miles8
Green Trees Subdivision19.5 miles8
Rauville20.9 miles8
Grover21.8 miles8
Watertown23.1 miles8

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 WallaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1572693The 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 1258809. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.