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Brocket, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Brocket City. It lies in ZIP code area 58321. The Survey maps it on the Brocket quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,512 feet above sea level.

Brocket within Ramsey County

Population over time

2 figures

Brocket fell from 57 to 34 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
201057
202034-23 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Brocket between 2008 and 2019, burning about 424 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1

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
26 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-10
21 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-9
10 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined140 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-6
23 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-5
15 April 2008Debris and open burning72 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictEIDSNESS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brocket in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindBrocket$1,000Several large trees were blown over.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBrocket$500Several tree branches were snapped by the strong wind.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBrocket-Measured wind gust of 60 mph by 10m sensor at NDAWN station located near Brocket, ND.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBrocket-Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station at the 10 meter height.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBrocket-Peak wind gust was measured at an NDAWN station at the 10 meter height.
June 2006HailBrocket-Hail covered the ground.
June 2006Funnel CloudBrocket-A funnel cloud was reported.
July 2003HailBrocket-The wind driven hail destroyed crops.
June 2022HailBrocket-no account filed
June 2022HailBrocket-no account filed
June 2020HailBrocket-no account filed
June 2020HailBrocket-no account filed
July 2015HailBrocket-no account filed
August 2006HailBrocket-no account filed
August 2006HailBrocket-no account filed
July 2003HailBrocket-no account filed
June 2003HailBrocket-no account filed
July 2001HailBrocket-no account filed
July 1999HailBrocket-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
Lawton6.2 miles7
Southam11.0 miles7
Bartlett12.3 miles7
Doyon14.6 miles7
Edmore14.7 miles7
Rohrville16.8 miles7
Crary17.9 miles8
Derrick21.1 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 BrocketAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1985898The 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 1028140. 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.