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.
Population over time
2 figuresWallace 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 85 | |
| 2020 | 91 | +6 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Webster quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | UNKNOWN |
| 3 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SCHWINGER |
| 23 April 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HORNING |
| 21 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GRAZING ACERS |
| 20 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Ipswich Volunteer Fire Department | HOFFMAN |
| 16 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 468 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 10 April 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | YEXLY |
| 20 March 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ROBERTS |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
38 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Flood | Wallace | $471,700 | no account filed |
| April 2023 | Flood | Wallace | $150,000 | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Wallace | - | 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | - | Seventy-five mph winds downed several large trees. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | - | Sixty-five mph winds were estimated. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Wallace | - | 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 2011 | Hail | Wallace | - | Large hail caused some dents in a vehicle. |
| March 2011 | Flood | Wallace | - | 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated by the public. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | - | Seventy mph winds uprooted several trees along with damaging some shingles. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | - | Several trees were uprooted by seventy mph winds. |
| July 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Wallace | - | A landspout tornado touched down briefly west of Wallace with no damage reported. Path length and width were estimated. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Flood | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Flood | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Wallace | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Wallace | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florence | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Henry | 14.4 miles | 8 | |
| North Shore | 17.1 miles | 8 | |
| Kampeska | 18.0 miles | 8 | |
| Green Trees Subdivision | 19.5 miles | 8 | |
| Rauville | 20.9 miles | 8 | |
| Grover | 21.8 miles | 8 | |
| Watertown | 23.1 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 Wallace | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1572693 | 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 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.



