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Bucyrus, North Dakota

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Bucyrus City. It lies in ZIP code area 58639. The Survey maps it on the Bucyrus quadrangle. 18 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,782 feet above sea level.

Bucyrus within Adams County

Population over time

2 figures

Bucyrus fell from 27 to 18 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
201027
202018-9 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bucyrus between 2005 and 2016, burning about 36 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
19 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service4 MILE FIRE
19 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service6MILE FIRE
19 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service7MILE FIRE
9 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceARNDORFER FIRE
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSLOGAN FIRE
18 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMILE 67
16 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
30 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucyrus in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2009HailBucyrus$500,000A severe thunderstorm brought a two to three mile wide swath of very large hail across southern Adams County. The maximum hail size reported was baseball size and fell on a farm about three miles east and four miles north of Hettinger. That farm had 100 percent crop loss over 1,500 acres and had extensive damage to buildings, machinery, and vehicles. National Weather Service officials spoke with the owner of the farm who stated that every window on the west and north sides was broken. Hail broke windows on the farm house, came inside the dwelling, and broke picture frames, knickknacks, and a large screen television inside. Five sheep were beaten to death by the hail. Large hail, but smaller than baseball size, fell on the north side of Hettinger. Windows were broken and siding and roofs were damaged. Damage amounts are estimated from newspaper articles and from speaking with victims.
June 2018HailBucyrus$70,000Siding was damaged and windows were broken on a home. Roofs were damaged, along with vehicles.
July 2016HailBucyrus$30,000no account filed
May 2014HailBucyrus$25,000There was damage to vehicles and roofs.
May 2023HailBucyrus$15,000The thunderstorm produced copious amounts of hail up to one-inch in diameter, with the hail accumulating to around two inches deep on the ground. The hail damaged the vinyl siding on a garage.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019HailBucyrus-Many crops and hay fields were damaged by the hail.
August 2017Funnel CloudBucyrus-A brief funnel cloud was reported.
June 2013Tornado (EF0)Bucyrus-This tornado touched down briefly in open country north of the city of Hettinger. No damage was reported so this tornado was rated EF0.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was received.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-no account filed
July 2020HailBucyrus-no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudBucyrus-no account filed
August 2017HailBucyrus-no account filed
August 2017HailBucyrus-no account filed
June 2016HailBucyrus-no account filed
August 2016HailBucyrus-no account filed
July 2016HailBucyrus-no account filed
June 2013HailBucyrus-no account filed
May 2013HailBucyrus-no account filed
May 2013HailBucyrus-no account filed
July 2011HailBucyrus-no account filed
July 2010HailBucyrus-no account filed
October 2010HailBucyrus-no account filed
July 2001HailBucyrus-no account filed
July 2000HailBucyrus-no account filed
August 1999Tornado (F0)Bucyrus-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindBucyrus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Reeder8.8 miles5
Hettinger9.1 miles5
Haynes17.9 miles7
Petrel28.2 miles7
North Lemmon34.4 miles6

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 BucyrusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28142The 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 1028170. 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.