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Cando, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Cando Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58324. The Survey maps it on the Cando quadrangle. 1,117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,476 feet above sea level.

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Cando within Towner County

On record in Cando

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cando grew from 1,115 to 1,117 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
20101,115
20201,117+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cando between 1999 and 2019, burning about 235 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service201810
23 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGUN CLUB GRASS FIRE
29 May 2018Debris and open burning41 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictGRINDE
2 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-04
13 May 2018Arson/incendiarism103 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictJOHNSON
12 May 2018Natural75 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceREIDER FARM
10 May 1999Debris and open burning11 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictGRINDE
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHEXAGON FARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towner County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cando: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Miller Gravel & Ready MixSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Towner County

Storms near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cando in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 25 hail, 19 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
June 1996HailCando$10,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCando$5,000A 140x18.5 foot wall on the city newspaper building was blown down.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCando$1,000Trees were blown down in Cando.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCando$500Large tree branches were blown down.
June 2023HailCando-Public reports quarter sized hail mixed in with smaller stones in Cando. Brief duration.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindCando-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN sensor.
August 2016HailCando-Quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCando-A few three to five inch diameter tree branches were blown down along the southern edge of Cando.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCando-A few three to five inch diameter tree branches were blown down in a farm shelterbelt along with some pea to penny sized hail and brief heavy rain.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCando-A large tree fell on a house.
June 2010HailCando-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell, but melted quickly in the heavy rain.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCando-A small tree was uprooted.
July 2007HailCando-Wind driven hail caused considerable damage to fields near the Cando and Bethel township line.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCando-5 trees were blown down in a shelterbelt. Shingle damage was reported on a house and several outbuildings.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCando-The strong winds occurred along the Towner/Benson county line. Crops were flattened in the area.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCando-The wind gust was measured by a Davis wind sensor on the Cando elevator.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCando-A swine feeder facility was hit hard by the strong winds. Two barns were destroyed, two more were severely damaged, and another lost part of its roof. 8,500 swine had to be shipped out.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCando-The gust was measured by a Davis wind sensor. A large tree fell on a house.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindCando-Several trees were blown down.
July 2005Flash FloodCando-Several fields were flooded. Water surrounded two farms and caused basement flooding.
June 2004Tornado (F1)Cando-The tornado flipped over a semi truck and uprooted numerous trees. An 8-stall garage was blown off its foundation and destroyed. Some debris from the garage was thrown through the 8-plex apartment walls. A fence around the 8-plex was also destroyed. Some brick facade collapsed onto the roof of the Towner county courthouse, partially caving in a section of roof.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCando-The steel roof was peeled off a large hog barn.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCando-An airplane was flipped over at the Cando airport.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Cando-The tornado made intermittent contact with the ground for several minutes.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCando-Six inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCando-Trees were blown down.
July 2000Flash FloodCando-6.25 inches of rain fell in the Cando area, which caused problems for a section of road construction. Large ponds formed along a 12 mile stretch of highway 281. Rushing coulee water washed out a bypass road around a bridge being fixed. Several gravel roads had washouts and grain fields were flattened. In Cando, streets, several fairways at the town golf course, and some basements filled with water.
June 2017HailCando-no account filed
August 2016HailCando-no account filed
July 2015HailCando-no account filed
July 2009HailCando-no account filed
May 2007HailCando-no account filed
July 2007HailCando-no account filed
June 2006HailCando-no account filed
May 2004HailCando-no account filed
May 2004HailCando-no account filed
June 2002HailCando-no account filed
June 2002HailCando-no account filed
August 2002HailCando-no account filed
August 2002HailCando-no account filed
August 2002HailCando-no account filed
August 2002HailCando-no account filed
June 2000Funnel CloudCando-no account filed
August 2000HailCando-no account filed
August 2000HailCando-no account filed
August 1999HailCando-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Cando-no account filed
June 1996Tornado (F0)Cando-no account filed
July 1996HailCando-no account filed
July 1996HailCando-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCando-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Towner 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
Maza6.4 miles7
Considine6.5 miles7
Arndt10.0 miles7
Egeland11.3 miles7
Newville12.8 miles7
Bisbee13.1 miles7
Crocus15.5 miles7
Perth20.6 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 CandoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1999201The 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 1028267. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.