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Abercrombie, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Abercrombie City. It lies in ZIP code area 58001. The Survey maps it on the Abercrombie quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Abercrombie within Richland County

On record in Abercrombie

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Abercrombie fell from 263 to 244 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
2010263
2020244-19 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abercrombie in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 8 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
August 2008Flash FloodAbercrombie$30,000Several fields and farm access roads were flooded due to runoff from heavy rains in northeast Richland County. The water slowly subsided through the morning of the 12th as runoff moved into the larger river system.
May 2024FloodAbercrombie$500Wahpeton Gage, on the Red River. Crested at 11.01 ft on May 25th at 4:45 pm.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAbercrombie$200The strong wind blew several trees down.
August 2016HailAbercrombie-A lot of small hail fell, but there were a few larger stones as well.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAbercrombie-Winds estimated at 70 to 80 mph blew down and uprooted trees.
June 2007FloodAbercrombie-In Dwight, 4 homes and a church had sewer backup or basement flooding. The heavy rain filled ditches and streets and caused a creek on the perimeter of town to rise four feet. In Wahpeton, roughly 20 to 40 homes had sewer backup or basement flooding. Around the town of Fairmount, thousands of acres of cropland was drowned out and it was now too late to re-plant. The Richland County highway engineer estimated 40 to 45 road and bridge closures. Two river gauges in Richland County reported immediate impacts from the runoff. On the Wild Rice River at Abercrombie, which was showing a level of about 4.75 feet on the morning of the 2nd, the river stage shot up to around 21 feet by the early morning hours of the 5th (a jump of over 16 feet in nearly 3 days). The stage of around 21 feet would qualify as a top ten historical crest. On the Red River at Wahpeton/Breckenridge, which was showing a level of about 9.3 feet on the morning of the 1st, the river stage shot up to around 15.6 feet by late in the afternoon of the 3rd (a jump of over 6 feet in about 2 days). Again, the 15.6 river peak would qualify as a top ten historical crest.
August 2005HailAbercrombie-Pea to nickel sized hail fell near the Red River.
August 2005Flash FloodAbercrombie-About 5 inches of rain fell over a large portion of Eagle Township, mainly during a three hour period from 10 PM to 1 AM CDT. Excessive runoff from the heaviest rainfall caused ditches and small streams to overflow and inundate local fields and farmyards. Water briefly flowed across county highway 81 near Enloe.
June 2009Heavy RainAbercrombie-no account filed
May 2005HailAbercrombie-no account filed
September 2005HailAbercrombie-no account filed
August 2004HailAbercrombie-no account filed
June 2001HailAbercrombie-no account filed
July 1998HailAbercrombie-no account filed
July 1998HailAbercrombie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Enloe3.9 miles9
Galchutt5.9 miles9
Pitcairn6.1 miles9
Colfax7.8 miles9
Christine9.5 miles23
Dwight9.9 miles11
Lithia12.4 miles23
Farmington12.5 miles10

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 AbercrombieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2279208The 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 1027647. 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.

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.