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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.

Cavalier within Pembina County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cavalier 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,302
20201,246-56 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

3 since 2017

Regional 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 maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRAILROAD FIRE
13 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDEMARS GRASS FIRE
22 October 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTROSEN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pembina County

Storms near this place

39 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997LightningCavalier2 hurt, $20,000A 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 2019Flash FloodCavalier$250,000Streets, 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 1993HailCavalier$50,000no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindCavalier$40,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCavalier$5,000A tree was blown onto a roof.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindCavalier$5,000Numerous trees were damaged around the town.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCavalier$200Tree branches were blown down.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCavalier-The wind gust was measured at the Cavalier airport.
September 2019HailCavalier-The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindCavalier-Trees were uprooted and power outages were reported.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCavalier-Several six to eight inch diameter tree branches and limbs were broken down in town. There was also some street flooding.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCavalier-Large tree branches were blown down around town. A 58 mph wind gust was measured at the Cavalier AWOS.
June 2005Flash FloodCavalier-Street and basement flooding were reported along the southern edge of Cavalier.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCavalier-75 mph wind gusts were reported, with several trees down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCavalier-Metal trim was torn off the Pembina county Emergency Operations Center.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCavalier-Trees were blown down.
June 2005Tornado (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 2005Tornado (F0)Cavalier-No significant tree damage occurred, but dust plumes were evident as the tornado crossed open fields.
June 2020HailCavalier-no account filed
September 2019HailCavalier-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCavalier-no account filed
June 2012HailCavalier-no account filed
June 2003HailCavalier-no account filed
August 2002HailCavalier-no account filed
August 2002HailCavalier-no account filed
July 2002HailCavalier-no account filed
August 2002HailCavalier-no account filed
July 2001HailCavalier-no account filed
June 1999HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1998HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1998HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1998HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1998HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1998HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1998HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1998HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1997HailCavalier-no account filed
August 1997HailCavalier-no account filed
October 1997HailCavalier-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pembina 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
Backoo5.5 miles10
Akra5.7 miles10
Hensel7.6 miles9
Hamilton9.0 miles9
Svold9.3 miles10
Bathgate9.6 miles9
Hallson10.6 miles10
Glasston11.1 miles10

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 CavalierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1996108The 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.