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.
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
Carson Roller Milllisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresCarson 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 293 | |
| 2020 | 254 | -39 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Carson quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2008Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2016 | Other causes | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | TRACY MARTIN |
| 26 July 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GENE MCDOWELL |
| 25 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | STOLLER |
| 3 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,000 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WOODBURY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
34 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | $30,000 | Strong 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | $30,000 | Newspaper reports farmstead sustained damage from storm 25 miles south of Carson. Crop damage from hail and winds and several grain bins ripped apart. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | $1,000 | A power line was blown down. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Carson | - | A deputy sheriff located in Carson observed the funnel cloud and estimated it to be about three miles east of Carson. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | Law enforcement reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Carson | - | There was no information on damage. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | The Grant County Sheriff estimated strong thunderstorm winds up to 60 miles per hour. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | One inch hail also accompanied the storm. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Carson | - | Law enforcement reported 5 inches of rain. Water washing over the roadway. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Carson | - | Tornado briefly touched down in open country. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Carson | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carson | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Carson | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leith | 5.6 miles | 5 | |
| Brisbane | 6.5 miles | 5 | |
| Heil | 7.5 miles | 5 | |
| Lark | 9.3 miles | 5 | |
| Wollman Ranch Colony | 14.0 miles | 7 | |
| Raleigh | 14.3 miles | 5 | |
| Elgin | 14.9 miles | 5 | |
| Johnson Ford | 15.1 miles | 7 |
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 Carson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q731708 | 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 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.



