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Bergen, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Bergen City. It lies in ZIP code area 58792. The Survey maps it on the Bergen quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,578 feet above sea level.

Bergen within McHenry County

Population over time

2 figures

Bergen grew from 7 to 10 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
20107
202010+3 (+43%)

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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bergen between 2015 and 2016, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
19 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH FIRE
14 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDENNIS BOSSART

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bergen in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 7 hail. 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
September 2024HailBergen$20,000Vehicles were dented by the golf ball size hail.
July 2015HailBergen-no account filed
June 2012HailBergen-no account filed
July 2012HailBergen-no account filed
July 2011HailBergen-no account filed
April 2010HailBergen-no account filed
June 2004HailBergen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
Voltaire6.9 miles16
Karlsruhe7.9 miles7
Verendrye8.3 miles6
Balfour10.1 miles8
Kongsberg11.3 miles9
Velva12.0 miles9
Rangeley12.2 miles6
Simcoe13.4 miles8

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 BergenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2069603The 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 1027898. 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.