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Waverly, South Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Waverly Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57201. The Survey maps it on the Kranzburg quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,985 feet above sea level.

Waverly within Codington County

Population over time

2 figures

Waverly fell from 37 to 22 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
201037
202022-15 (-41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Waverly between 1999 and 2015, burning about 662 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism1

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
15 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression455TH AVE & 164TH ST
5 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresBuffalo Volunteer Fire DepartmentRAY GILBERT
3 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEdgemont Volunteer Fire DepartmentMP 492
15 August 2004Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresSisseton AgencySWIM FIRE
1 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
15 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCodington CountyRAILROAD FIRE
14 May 2008Debris and open burning82 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
11 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Waverly: 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waverly in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 hail, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWaverly-The Codington County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees had been snapped due to strong thunderstorm winds. An empty grain bin had also been blown open at this location.
September 2025Funnel CloudWaverly-A trained spotter submitted a photo of a funnel cloud near Waverly.
August 1997Tornado (F0)Waverly-A very weak tornado rated F-1 touched down disentegrating the roof of a calf shelter, throwing it 70 feet. Also, the tornado sucked coal out of a grill, knocking the grill over. Path length and width are estimated.
May 2022Funnel CloudWaverly-no account filed
August 2017HailWaverly-no account filed
May 2014HailWaverly-no account filed
May 2012HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2007HailWaverly-no account filed
July 2001HailWaverly-no account filed
June 1999HailWaverly-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Waverly-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
Rauville7.2 miles8
South Shore7.7 miles6
Kranzburg7.8 miles8
Watertown10.2 miles8
Green Trees Subdivision10.4 miles8
North Shore12.9 miles8
Appleby13.2 miles8
Foley14.4 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 WaverlyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6166584The 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 1258847. 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.