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Beach, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Beach Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58621. The Survey maps it on the Beach West quadrangle. 981 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,776 feet above sea level.

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Beach within Golden Valley County

On record in Beach

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

Beach fell from 1,019 to 981 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
20101,019
2020981-38 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Beach between 2015 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWibaux CountyCARLYLE - WIBAUX
28 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use40 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGASHO FIRE
22 August 2015Natural2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSTEELE LIGHTNING FIRE
31 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI94W MM0 FIRE
27 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSZUDERA POWER LINE FIRE
27 July 2015Natural7.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFIERING LIGHTNING FIRE
13 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRR FIREWORKS FIRE
9 March 2015Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBNSF MARTIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley 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 Beach: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sodium. 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
Grenora LakeSodiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Golden Valley County

Storms near this place

60 of 77 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beach in 77 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 35 hail, 35 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindBeach3 hurt, $20,000Tree damage occurred in Beach. Three injuries occurred at the Golden Valley County Fairgrounds when part of a stage being set up was blown over. The injuries were minor.
August 1993HailBeach$500,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBeach$50,000The strong thunderstorm winds blew down multiple cottonwood and evergreen trees. Some of the trees were 18 inches in diameter. Power lines were also reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBeach$25,000The strong winds blew the roof off of a lumberyard building.
August 2008HailBeach$25,000Hail in various sizes up to two and one-quarter inches in diameter fell over the city of Beach for a half hour. Damage was reported to homes in Beach and crops around Beach.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBeach$15,000Roof blown off of pole barn. Trees down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBeach$12,000The strong winds blew down a power line, temporarily disrupting power to parts of Beach.
August 1996HailBeach$12,000no account filed
March 2015Thunderstorm WindBeach-The National Weather Service received no reports of damage.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBeach-The strong thunderstorm wind gusts were reported by the public.
July 2014Funnel CloudBeach-A brief funnel cloud formed near Beach. This funnel cloud did not reach the surface and soon dissipated after developing.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBeach-Very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBeach-Very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBeach-Large hail accompanied the strong winds.
June 2006HailBeach-Severe crop damage to lentil, pea, durum, and corn fields. 65 mph winds accompanied large hail.
July 2006HailBeach-Hail ranged in size from pea size to quarter size.
August 2006HailBeach-Hail covered the ground.
July 2006HailBeach-Piles of hail.
August 2006LightningBeach-Lightning started a fire that destroyed 80 round hay bales.
June 2005HailBeach-Heavy rain and frequent lightning.
July 2004HailBeach-Nickel to quarter size hail on the south side of Beach.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBeach-Several tree limbs down.
June 2002HailBeach-Event duration of 20 minutes.
June 2002HailBeach-Hail accumulated between 1 to 3 inches with nickel to quarter size covering the ground.
June 2002Flash FloodBeach-County roads washed out and roads in the community of Beach flooded.
June 2002Flash FloodBeach-County roads washed out around the Beach area.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBeach-Eight to ten inch diameter trees blown down.
August 1999HailBeach-Damage path of 15 miles wide and 20 miles long.
July 1999HailBeach-The path of hail averaged 6 miles wide.
June 1998Heavy RainBeach-Report of 5 inches of rain in 2.5 hours caused basement and low land flooding.
July 1997HailBeach-Hail fell 9 E Beach
July 1997HailBeach-60 mph winds also occurred
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
August 2022HailBeach-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
May 2020HailBeach-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
August 2018HailBeach-no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
June 2010HailBeach-no account filed
August 2008HailBeach-no account filed
August 2006HailBeach-no account filed
July 2006HailBeach-no account filed
August 2005HailBeach-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
July 2005HailBeach-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBeach-no account filed
July 2004HailBeach-no account filed
July 2004HailBeach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Golden Valley 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
Chama5.0 miles5
Thelan8.1 miles5
Sentinel Butte8.8 miles5
Ekre9.1 miles5
Golva12.7 miles6
De Mores13.9 miles6
Rider19.5 miles6
Alpha20.4 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 BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1999217The 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 1027837. 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.