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.
Population over time
2 figuresBlanchard 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 26 | |
| 2020 | 16 | -10 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1918 USGS Kelso quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Kelso quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Blanchard quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LEINING FARMSTEAD |
| 7 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge | BARBWIRE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanchard | $100,000 | Two 5000 bushel grain bins were blown one-half mile. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanchard | - | Peak wind gust measured at a personal weather station. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanchard | - | Received a public report of power outages, as well as several large 4 to 6 inch branches snapped. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blanchard | - | The wind gust was measured by a mobile mesonet station. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Blanchard | - | 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 2007 | Hail | Blanchard | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Blanchard | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Blanchard | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Blanchard | - | 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 Blanchard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q881383 | 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 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.






