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.
Population over time
2 figuresWilmot 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 492 | |
| 2020 | 432 | -60 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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
- 1971 USGS Wilmot quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 2000Regional 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/undetermined | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | CLAYTON PALMQUIST |
| 25 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BILL WHIPPLE |
| 7 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 2 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | TODD |
| 7 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | I-29 |
| 31 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | STATE SANDING PAD |
| 31 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 5 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | HWY15 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | A COOP observer in Wilmot relayed that several large tree branches were downed around town by the thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Wilmot | - | Flooding along the northern reaches of the North Fork Whetstone inundated the northern and western portions of Wilmot on April 11th. |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Wilmot | - | A tornado touched down briefly. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | Estimated sixty mph winds brought down some large branches in Wilmot. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Wilmot | - | Several roads in Wilmot had water running over them for several hours. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wilmot | - | Quarter hail with winds over 50 mph caused major damage to a bean field along with damaging the siding of the house. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wilmot | - | Wind driven hail caused major crop damage. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated east of Wilmot. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | High winds caused a lot of tree damage and brought down a tree in Wilmot. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | Winds gusting to 60 mph brought several large branches down in Wilmot. |
| July 1997 | Hail | Wilmot | - | The four inch size hail busted a few windshields. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Wilmot | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Wilmot | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corona | 7.2 miles | 6 | |
| Madsen Beach | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Hiawatha Beach | 7.4 miles | 8 | |
| South Dakota Park | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Peever Flats | 9.0 miles | 12 | |
| Hartford Beach | 9.4 miles | 8 | |
| Peever | 10.6 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Grove | 10.9 miles | 7 |
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 Wilmot | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1737120 | 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 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.



