Cavalier, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Cavalier City. It lies in ZIP code area 58220. The Survey maps it on the Cavalier quadrangle. 1,246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 886 feet above sea level.
On record in Cavalier
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
Pembina County Courthouselisted 1980- Gunlogson Farmstead Historic Sitelisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresCavalier fell from 1,302 to 1,246 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 | 1,302 | |
| 2020 | 1,246 | -56 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 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.
- 1939 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Cavalier between 2017 and 2018, burning about 53 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 July 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 50 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RAILROAD FIRE |
| 13 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DEMARS GRASS FIRE |
| 22 October 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TROSEN FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cavalier in 39 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 22 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Lightning | Cavalier | 2 hurt, $20,000 | A man and his son were walking next to a tree when lightning struck. The two were knocked to the ground, with the tree taking the brunt of the strike. Two businesses in Cavalier were also hit by lightning, damaging their computer systems. |
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Cavalier | $250,000 | Streets, low spots, rivers, and basements were flooded by 4 to 9 inches of rain over a short duration of time. Cars that got stuck in the flood waters were abandoned where they stalled. Farm fields and access roads were also flooded. |
| May 1993 | Hail | Cavalier | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | $5,000 | A tree was blown onto a roof. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | $5,000 | Numerous trees were damaged around the town. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | $200 | Tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | The wind gust was measured at the Cavalier airport. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Cavalier | - | The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | Trees were uprooted and power outages were reported. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | Several six to eight inch diameter tree branches and limbs were broken down in town. There was also some street flooding. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | Large tree branches were blown down around town. A 58 mph wind gust was measured at the Cavalier AWOS. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Cavalier | - | Street and basement flooding were reported along the southern edge of Cavalier. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | 75 mph wind gusts were reported, with several trees down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | Metal trim was torn off the Pembina county Emergency Operations Center. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Cavalier | - | Several trees were knocked down in each shelterbelt this tornado crossed. A metal roof was also damaged by the tornado. One to two additional funnels were pendant from the same wall cloud at various times. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Cavalier | - | No significant tree damage occurred, but dust plumes were evident as the tornado crossed open fields. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Cavalier | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Cavalier | - | 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 Cavalier | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1996108 | 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 1028302. 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.







