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Carson, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Grant unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58529. It stands on Carson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Carson quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,300 feet above sea level.

Carson within Grant County

On record in Carson

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Carson fell from 293 to 254 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
2010293
2020254-39 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Carson between 2008 and 2018, burning about 2,005 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Natural1

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
28 August 2016Other causesunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTRACY MARTIN
26 July 2016Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGENE MCDOWELL
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSTOLLER
3 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,000 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWOODBURY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carson in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 20 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCarson$30,000Strong straight line winds associated with a severe thunderstorm resulted in several large evergreen and cottonwood trees to become uprooted or were blown over. The wind speed was estimated from a storm survey.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCarson$30,000Newspaper reports farmstead sustained damage from storm 25 miles south of Carson. Crop damage from hail and winds and several grain bins ripped apart.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindCarson$1,000A power line was blown down.
May 2018Funnel CloudCarson-A deputy sheriff located in Carson observed the funnel cloud and estimated it to be about three miles east of Carson.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindCarson-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCarson-Law enforcement reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2014HailCarson-There was no information on damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCarson-The Grant County Sheriff estimated strong thunderstorm winds up to 60 miles per hour.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCarson-One inch hail also accompanied the storm.
July 2001Flash FloodCarson-Law enforcement reported 5 inches of rain. Water washing over the roadway.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Carson-Tornado briefly touched down in open country.
July 2023HailCarson-no account filed
July 2023HailCarson-no account filed
July 2020HailCarson-no account filed
July 2020HailCarson-no account filed
July 2020HailCarson-no account filed
August 2020HailCarson-no account filed
August 2020HailCarson-no account filed
May 2018HailCarson-no account filed
May 2018HailCarson-no account filed
May 2018HailCarson-no account filed
May 2018HailCarson-no account filed
June 2018HailCarson-no account filed
June 2012HailCarson-no account filed
June 2011HailCarson-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindCarson-no account filed
July 2007HailCarson-no account filed
June 2005HailCarson-no account filed
May 2004HailCarson-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindCarson-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCarson-no account filed
June 1999HailCarson-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCarson-no account filed
June 1994HailCarson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Leith5.6 miles5
Brisbane6.5 miles5
Heil7.5 miles5
Lark9.3 miles5
Wollman Ranch Colony14.0 miles7
Raleigh14.3 miles5
Elgin14.9 miles5
Johnson Ford15.1 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 CarsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q731708The 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 1028290. 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.