Barney, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Barney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58008. The Survey maps it on the Wyndmere SE quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Barney within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Barney fell from 52 to 40 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	52
2020	40	-12 (-23%)

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.

1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Wyndmere SE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Storms near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barney in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Tornado (F1)	Barney	$100,000	70 trees were uprooted and twisted in different directions. The awnings of a home and a barn were destroyed by the tornado. Several radio towers were toppled. At a nearby farm, a large grain bin, house, and several other buildings were damaged.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down at Barney.
April 2022	Hail	Barney	-	Public report posted via social media. Time estimated based on radar.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	A few large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were broken down. A wooden play center was blown down. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2021	Hail	Barney	-	Photos of measured 1.75 inch hail reported via social media. Time based on radar.
June 2019	Hail	Barney	-	Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with strong winds and brief heavy rain.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	A few four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down around town.
June 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Barney	-	The tornado broke down large trees and numerous large tree branches. It also flipped and tossed a large wooden play center for several yards and jumbled septic tank PVC pipes which extended westward from the house at ground level. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	Numerous large tree branches and limbs were torn down and several trees were uprooted around town.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	Several 4 to 8 inch diameter branches were broken off of trees in a shelterbelt. The trees were in the early leafing stages.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	Large branches were blown down.
September 2019	Hail	Barney	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Barney	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Barney	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Barney	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Barney	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Barney	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Barney	-	no account filed
August 1997	Hail	Barney	-	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Moselle	5.0 miles	9
Mooreton	6.6 miles	10
Wyndmere	7.0 miles	10
Mantador	7.1 miles	10
Bayne	7.9 miles	10
Fairview Junction	9.4 miles	10
Galchutt	13.1 miles	9
Great Bend	13.1 miles	10

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 Barney	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1963524	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 1035851. 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.