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Calio, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Calio City. It lies in ZIP code area 58352. The Survey maps it on the Calio quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.

Calio within Cavalier County

Population over time

2 figures

Calio fell from 22 to 8 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
201022
20208-14 (-64%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Calio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,519 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
20 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictBRUDEVIG
6 May 1996Arson/incendiarism136 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPUNG WPA
22 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceEUGENE GOESER
2 May 2020Debris and open burning21 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictWENGLER
17 May 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCOUNTY LINE
11 May 2004Debris and open burning23 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPUNG II
7 April 1992Arson/incendiarism130 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPUNG WPA
27 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCALIO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cavalier County

Storms near this place

15 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calio in 15 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 8 hail, 4 tornado, 3 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 2008Tornado (EF1)Calio$100,000This tornado originated in Towner County and tracked intermittently for an additional 7 miles before ending about 1 mile north-northeast of Munich by 428 pm CDT. This tornado tipped three steel hopper bottom bins and tore siding and roofing off a pole shed. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 100 mph.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCalio$200Tree branches were blown down.
July 2025Tornado (EF0)Calio-A large dusty tornado was reported near Calio ND with no damage conveyed from any sources who witnessed it. This tornado started in Towner County and traveled 0.50 miles to the Cavalier county line, where it traveled an additional 1.04 miles. It is suspected that this was spawned out of land spout processes which likely contributed to its dusty tubelike appearance as seen on social media. UPDATE 7/22/25: Adjusted track based on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.
July 2020HailCalio-Pea to dime sized hail covered the ground in west central Seivert Township.
July 2020HailCalio-Quarter to golf ball sized hail decimated sections of cropland in far northwest Seivert Township.
July 2019Tornado (EF0)Calio-This tornado was likely wrapped in downburst winds and hail across portions of southwest Seivert Township, causing crop and tree damage. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCalio-Crops were laid flat across southern Seivert Township after multiple rounds of large hail, strong winds, and heavy rain.
June 2018Tornado (EF1)Calio-A partially rain wrapped tornado tracked 3 to 4 miles, from the northwest corner of Calio into northeast Seivert Township. The tornado blew down several trees in Calio and tore some steel sheets off a shop roof. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph.
June 2018HailCalio-Heavy rain occurred and several large tree branches were blown down.
July 2016HailCalio-The hail fell along the Ramsey and Cavalier county line.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCalio-4 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
June 2018HailCalio-no account filed
June 2018HailCalio-no account filed
June 2005HailCalio-no account filed
May 2004HailCalio-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cavalier 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
Munich5.9 miles7
Clyde9.8 miles7
Weaver11.4 miles8
Alsen12.1 miles7
Calvin15.3 miles7
Loma21.2 miles7
Sarles22.0 miles7
Wales25.3 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 CalioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q604944The 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 1028233. 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.