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Beulah, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the West Mercer unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58523. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beulah quadrangle. 3,058 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,785 feet above sea level.

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Beulah within Mercer County

On record in Beulah

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

3 figures

Beulah grew from 552 to 3,058 between 1920 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
1920552
20103,121
20203,058-63 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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

14 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 2012 and 2020, burning about 250 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
6 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTRANSFER STATION
4 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 49
3 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceY FIRE
15 August 2016Natural2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service544 CTY RD 9
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRDO FIRE
4 July 2012Fireworks2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFAUT
20 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use160 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceERICKSON FIRE
18 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 200 WEST OF COUNTY RD 17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mercer 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 Beulah: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pischel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this place

60 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah in 72 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 38 hail, 26 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 1999Tornado (F1)Beulah$150,000damage confined to farm stead.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBeulah$70,000Estimated winds of 60 mph were reported. A light pole at a gas station in Beulah was blown over, along with several trees in the town of Beulah blown down. Blown over trees or branches knocked utility lines to the ground, momentarily disrupting power.
August 2010Tornado (EF0)Beulah$50,000A tornado touched down in Mercer County and impacted a farmstead. A large cottonwood tree was uprooted and two grain bins were destroyed. The damage corresponded to a middle EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that wind speeds were around 75 mph.
August 1993HailBeulah$50,000no account filed
August 2006Flash FloodBeulah$40,000Flash flooding between the cities of Beulah and Hazen, along each side of highway 200, and in the city of Beulah. Major roads were not flooded while some county roads were under water and partially washed out. A few streets in Beulah were closed due to high water.
July 2014HailBeulah$30,000There was crop, roof, and vehicle damage.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBeulah$20,000Roof torn from barn.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBeulah$10,000Large hail accompanied the strong winds and damaged property on the farm.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindBeulah$10,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in some tree damage in and around Beulah.
August 2021HailBeulah$7,000A pickup truck was damaged.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBeulah$5,000A chicken coop was destroyed.
May 2023HailBeulah-NWS had no reports of damage.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBeulah-The public estimated wind gusts to 70 mph.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBeulah-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBeulah-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Wind gust speed was estimated by a storm chaser.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Beulah-This tornado was reported by law enforcement. It moved near Beulah, Mercer County, just to the west and north of the city. No damage was reported. The same thunderstorm complex that produced this tornado in Mercer County produced one earlier northwest of Golden Valley, Mercer County, and one before that south of Manning in Dunn County. See Dunn County and other Mercer County tornado entries.
June 2011Heavy RainBeulah-A heavy rainfall report of 2.70 inches in one hour was received.
July 2011HailBeulah-Hail size ranged from ping pong ball to golfball sized. Strong winds up to 60 miles per hour accompanied the hail. The wind driven hail resulted in area crop damage.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Large hail accompanied the strong winds.
August 2011HailBeulah-Strong winds accompanied the large hail and damaged the farm. The dollar damage estimate was placed with the high thunderstorm wind Storm Data entry.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBeulah-No damage was reported with the severe thunderstorm wind gust.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Heavy rain accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2008HailBeulah-This report was from the Severe Hail Verification Experiment. No damage was reported.
June 2007Heavy RainBeulah-Rainfall was 1.90 inches within 30 minutes.
July 2006HailBeulah-Gusty winds accompanied the storm with 0.44 inches of rain.
August 2006HailBeulah-Also had 60 mph wind gusts.
May 2005HailBeulah-45 mph winds accompanied the storm.
July 2005HailBeulah-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Numerous large trees down. Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
June 2001Funnel CloudBeulah-Cooperative observer reported 1.50 inches of rain in a 20 minuate time period in the city of Beulah.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Cooperative observer reported the event last nearly 60 minutes. Several tree limbs down and a large tree split in two.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Two foot diameter tree's snapped.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBeulah-Wind occurred 7 S Beulah
July 1997Thunderstorm WindBeulah-occurred 7 S of Beulah
September 2024HailBeulah-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBeulah-no account filed
July 2021HailBeulah-no account filed
July 2021HailBeulah-no account filed
August 2020HailBeulah-no account filed
August 2020HailBeulah-no account filed
July 2019HailBeulah-no account filed
June 2018HailBeulah-no account filed
June 2018HailBeulah-no account filed
June 2018HailBeulah-no account filed
May 2016Funnel CloudBeulah-no account filed
June 2016HailBeulah-no account filed
July 2016HailBeulah-no account filed
June 2015HailBeulah-no account filed
June 2012HailBeulah-no account filed
July 2011HailBeulah-no account filed
July 2011HailBeulah-no account filed
July 2010HailBeulah-no account filed
June 2010HailBeulah-no account filed
September 2010HailBeulah-no account filed
July 2008HailBeulah-no account filed
May 2007HailBeulah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Zap7.8 miles5
Hazen8.5 miles5
Truax9.6 miles6
Golden Valley15.3 miles7
Stanton21.4 miles8
Knife River Village (historical)22.0 miles8
Pick City24.3 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 BeulahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q176998The 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 1027971. 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.