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Berthold, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Berthold Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58718. The Survey maps it on the Berthold quadrangle. 490 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,090 feet above sea level.

Berthold within Ward County

Population over time

2 figures

Berthold grew from 454 to 490 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
2010454
2020490+36 (+8%)

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

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Berthold between 2016 and 2020, burning about 173 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
Debris and open burning2
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
14 April 2016Debris and open burning10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFLAX FIELD FIRE
13 April 2016Debris and open burning160 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWILDFIRE #1
9 October 2020Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLONETREE BNSF GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ward County

Storms near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berthold in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 18 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Flash FloodBerthold$114,000Flash flood affected area from Berthold to Carpio and Foxholm. NDDOT and NDHP closed Highway 52 from Carpio to Foxholm because a bridge between the two cities was washed out from the flash flood. Homes flooded in Berthold.
July 2016HailBerthold$100,000no account filed
June 2010Funnel CloudBerthold-Funnel clouds continuously dissipated and reformed, but never reached the surface.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBerthold-Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2020HailBerthold-no account filed
August 2019HailBerthold-no account filed
September 2019HailBerthold-no account filed
June 2018HailBerthold-no account filed
August 2016HailBerthold-no account filed
June 2012HailBerthold-no account filed
July 2011HailBerthold-no account filed
August 2010HailBerthold-no account filed
May 2010HailBerthold-no account filed
May 2010HailBerthold-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBerthold-no account filed
June 2008HailBerthold-no account filed
July 2004HailBerthold-no account filed
August 2000HailBerthold-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBerthold-no account filed
July 1999HailBerthold-no account filed
August 1999HailBerthold-no account filed
July 1999Tornado (F1)Berthold-no account filed
July 1999HailBerthold-no account filed
July 1998HailBerthold-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ward 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
Lonetree5.4 miles6
Hartland7.4 miles7
Carpio9.0 miles9
Foxholm9.6 miles8
Des Lacs10.0 miles8
Aurelia13.7 miles6
Ralston14.5 miles11
Donnybrook15.7 miles7

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 BertholdAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1880357The 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 1027915. 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.