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Blanchard, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Blanchard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58009. The Survey maps it on the Blanchard quadrangle. 16 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Blanchard within Traill County

Population over time

2 figures

Blanchard fell from 26 to 16 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
201026
202016-10 (-38%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Blanchard between 2004 and 2012, burning about 30 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

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
21 June 2012Debris and open burning30 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLEINING FARMSTEAD
7 May 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreArrowwood National Wildlife RefugeBARBWIRE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Traill County

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanchard in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBlanchard$100,000Two 5000 bushel grain bins were blown one-half mile.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBlanchard-Peak wind gust measured at a personal weather station.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBlanchard-Received a public report of power outages, as well as several large 4 to 6 inch branches snapped.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBlanchard-The wind gust was measured by a mobile mesonet station.
June 2013HailBlanchard-Lots of quarter size hail fell along highway 200A in the Blanchard area, covering roads an inch or two deep and making the ditches white.
July 2007HailBlanchard-no account filed
May 2004HailBlanchard-no account filed
May 2004HailBlanchard-no account filed
May 2004HailBlanchard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Traill 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
Preston2.3 miles10
Greenfield4.9 miles10
Murray6.3 miles9
Alton9.2 miles11
Hillsboro9.3 miles12
Clifford10.1 miles9
Kelso10.2 miles11
Taft11.0 miles12

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 BlanchardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q881383The 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 1028041. 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.