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.
Population over time
2 figuresCalvin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 20 | |
| 2020 | 15 | -5 (-25%) |
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
- 1970 USGS Calvin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2003 | Fireworks | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | DELONG |
| 6 June 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | JUMBO |
| 24 June 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | RITA |
| 1 June 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 70 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | TEX |
| 8 April 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.6 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | TONY BOY |
| 5 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CARSON FIRE |
| 3 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | TWO COLOR |
| 28 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | ROLLO-A |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Hail | Calvin | $30,000 | The hail fell near the Towner County line. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Calvin | $1,000 | Windows were broken by the hail. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvin | - | A few trees were blown down around town, as well as numerous limbs broken. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Calvin | - | The hail was about two inches deep. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvin | - | Several large evergreens were uprooted along the Towner/Cavalier county line. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvin | - | Cottonwood trees were uprooted at a farmstead. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Calvin | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Calvin | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Calvin | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Calvin | - | 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 Calvin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2447220 | 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 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.



