BlockBowdon, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Bowdon City. It lies in ZIP code area 58418. The Survey maps it on the Bowdon quadrangle. 137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,808 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBowdon grew from 131 to 137 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 | 131 | |
| 2020 | 137 | +6 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Bowdon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Carrington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Bowdon in 2015, burning about 1 acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | STEVE SCHIMILFENIG |
Storms near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bowdon in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 7 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Hail | Bowdon | $250,000 | Vehicles were totaled and roofs damaged. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Bowdon | $5,000 | Thunderstorms produced around two inches of rain in this area leading to flash flooding along low water crossings. Damage was minimal and confined to eroded road shoulders. One report was that most of the rain fell in a 20 minute period. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Bowdon | - | This tornado touched down in the open country. There were no reports of damage associated with this tornado. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Bowdon | - | This tornado touched down in the open country. There were no reports of damage associated with this tornado. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Bowdon | - | The large hail resulted in crop damage. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bowdon | - | hail accumulated to 1 inch deep for a distance up to two miles. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Bowdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bowdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Bowdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Bowdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Bowdon | - | 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 Bowdon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2442972 | 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 1028094. 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.