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Wentworth, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wentworth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57075. The Survey maps it on the Wentworth quadrangle. 181 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,699 feet above sea level.

Wentworth within Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Wentworth grew from 171 to 181 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
2010171
2020181+10 (+6%)

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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Wentworth between 1999 and 2018, burning about 110 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
21 August 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMadison Wetland Management DistrictHANSE HOUSE
4 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUS HIGHWAY 115 AND 281ST
13 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
23 June 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
12 May 2007Debris and open burning40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
10 May 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCAVINESS
22 April 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTHOMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wentworth: 1 past producer. 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

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this place

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wentworth in 14 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWentworth$150,000Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including several trees uprooted or flattened, and others snapped a few feet above the ground. The winds also destroyed a 60 foot by 90 foot shed. Several homes and vehicles were damaged, including a car crushed by a tree and a garage heavily damaged by a falling tree. The winds caused damage to power lines and poles, both directly and from wind blown debris, with a resulting power outage in most of Wentworth.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWentworth$10,000Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including numerous branches down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindWentworth-A personal weather station measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 96 mph.
August 2021HailWentworth-Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindWentworth-Trees damaged, as well as house siding.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindWentworth-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large trees blown down.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindWentworth-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. The winds were accompanied by heavy rain and by half inch diameter hail that covered the ground.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindWentworth-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a large tree blown down.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Wentworth-A weak tornado tracked across farmland.
August 2021HailWentworth-no account filed
September 2007HailWentworth-no account filed
August 2005HailWentworth-no account filed
August 2005HailWentworth-no account filed
July 2004HailWentworth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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
Peninsula Park4.3 miles6
Smiths Park4.6 miles7
Brant Lake4.7 miles7
Chautauqua5.2 miles6
Rutland6.4 miles8
Chester7.3 miles7
Madison8.0 miles9
Franklin9.2 miles6

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 WentworthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q508855The 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 1265413. 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.