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Calvin, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glenila Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58323. The Survey maps it on the Calvin quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,617 feet above sea level.

Calvin within Cavalier County

Population over time

2 figures

Calvin fell from 20 to 15 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
201020
202015-5 (-25%)

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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Calvin between 1992 and 2012, burning about 483 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 July 2003Fireworksunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyDELONG
6 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined350 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyJUMBO
24 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyRITA
1 June 2002Equipment and vehicle use70 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyTEX
8 April 2007Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyTONY BOY
5 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCARSON FIRE
3 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyTWO COLOR
28 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyROLLO-A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cavalier County

Storms near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvin in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 6 hail, 4 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 2008HailCalvin$30,000The hail fell near the Towner County line.
July 1999HailCalvin$1,000Windows were broken by the hail.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCalvin-A few trees were blown down around town, as well as numerous limbs broken.
June 2007HailCalvin-The hail was about two inches deep.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCalvin-Several large evergreens were uprooted along the Towner/Cavalier county line.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCalvin-Cottonwood trees were uprooted at a farmstead.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCalvin-no account filed
August 2002HailCalvin-no account filed
August 2001HailCalvin-no account filed
August 2000HailCalvin-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
Clyde6.0 miles7
Sarles7.2 miles7
Munich13.8 miles7
Calio15.3 miles7
Hannah15.3 miles7
Wales17.9 miles7
Alsen19.6 miles7
Weaver21.2 miles8

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 CalvinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447220The 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 1028245. 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.