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Wilmot, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilmot City. It lies in ZIP code area 57279. The Survey maps it on the Wilmot quadrangle. 432 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.

Wilmot within Roberts County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilmot fell from 492 to 432 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
2010492
2020432-60 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

20 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Wilmot between 2000 and 2016, burning about 664 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionCLAYTON PALMQUIST
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBILL WHIPPLE
7 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
2 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionTODD
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionI-29
31 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSTATE SANDING PAD
31 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
5 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionHWY15

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roberts County

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmot in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWilmot-A COOP observer in Wilmot relayed that several large tree branches were downed around town by the thunderstorm winds.
April 2023FloodWilmot-Flooding along the northern reaches of the North Fork Whetstone inundated the northern and western portions of Wilmot on April 11th.
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Wilmot-A tornado touched down briefly.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindWilmot-Estimated sixty mph winds brought down some large branches in Wilmot.
June 2013Flash FloodWilmot-Several roads in Wilmot had water running over them for several hours.
June 2013HailWilmot-Quarter hail with winds over 50 mph caused major damage to a bean field along with damaging the siding of the house.
June 2013HailWilmot-Wind driven hail caused major crop damage.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindWilmot-Sixty mph winds were estimated east of Wilmot.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWilmot-Winds gusting to 80 mph destroyed a garage and a camper on a farm near Big Stone Lake. The high winds also toppled several trees.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWilmot-High winds caused a lot of tree damage and brought down a tree in Wilmot.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindWilmot-Winds gusting to 60 mph brought several large branches down in Wilmot.
July 1997HailWilmot-The four inch size hail busted a few windshields.
July 2022HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWilmot-no account filed
August 2016HailWilmot-no account filed
July 2016HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2013HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2013HailWilmot-no account filed
May 2012HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2003HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2003HailWilmot-no account filed
July 2003HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2002HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2002HailWilmot-no account filed
June 2002HailWilmot-no account filed
May 1999HailWilmot-no account filed
July 1997HailWilmot-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F1)Wilmot-no account filed
September 1996HailWilmot-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roberts 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
Corona7.2 miles6
Madsen Beach7.2 miles8
Hiawatha Beach7.4 miles8
South Dakota Park8.3 miles8
Peever Flats9.0 miles12
Hartford Beach9.4 miles8
Peever10.6 miles12
Spring Grove10.9 miles7

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 WilmotAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1737120The 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 1259033. 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.