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.
Population over time
2 figuresCalio 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 22 | |
| 2020 | 8 | -14 (-64%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Calio quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | BRUDEVIG |
| 6 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 136 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PUNG WPA |
| 22 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | EUGENE GOESER |
| 2 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 21 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | WENGLER |
| 17 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COUNTY LINE |
| 11 May 2004 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PUNG II |
| 7 April 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 130 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PUNG WPA |
| 27 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | CALIO FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Calio | $100,000 | This 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calio | $200 | Tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2025 | Tornado (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 2020 | Hail | Calio | - | Pea to dime sized hail covered the ground in west central Seivert Township. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Calio | - | Quarter to golf ball sized hail decimated sections of cropland in far northwest Seivert Township. |
| July 2019 | Tornado (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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calio | - | Crops were laid flat across southern Seivert Township after multiple rounds of large hail, strong winds, and heavy rain. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (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 2018 | Hail | Calio | - | Heavy rain occurred and several large tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Calio | - | The hail fell along the Ramsey and Cavalier county line. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calio | - | 4 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Calio | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Calio | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Calio | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Calio | - | 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 Calio | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q604944 | 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 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.



