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.
Population over time
2 figuresBerthold 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 454 | |
| 2020 | 490 | +36 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Berthold quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Minot quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2016Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FLAX FIELD FIRE |
| 13 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WILDFIRE #1 |
| 9 October 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LONETREE BNSF GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Berthold | $114,000 | Flash 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 2016 | Hail | Berthold | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Berthold | - | Funnel clouds continuously dissipated and reformed, but never reached the surface. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berthold | - | Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Berthold | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Berthold | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1880357 | 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 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.



