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Churchs Ferry, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Coulee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58325. The Survey maps it on the Churchs Ferry quadrangle. 9 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.

Churchs Ferry within Ramsey County

Population over time

2 figures

Churchs Ferry fell from 12 to 9 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
201012
20209-3 (-25%)

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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Churchs Ferry between 2018 and 2019, burning about 1,603 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
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLEE
2 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePOLE
12 May 2018Debris and open burning1,600 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePENN FIRE
11 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCHURCHES FERRY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Churchs Ferry in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 7 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 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
September 2019Flash FloodChurchs Ferry$250,000Fields and farm access roads were flooded across eastern Coulee and western Dry Lake townships.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindChurchs Ferry$100,000Strong winds destroyed a 45,000 bushel grain bin and deposited it on the adjacent railroad tracks. An AMTRAK train was delayed for two hours while the debris was cleaned up.
March 2009FloodChurchs Ferry$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailChurchs Ferry-The hail fell off and on for about five minutes.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindChurchs Ferry-Large branches were broken off trees.
June 2002Flash FloodChurchs Ferry-Yards, fields, and basements were flooded.
July 2000Flash FloodChurchs Ferry-5.5 inches of rain fell in a short period of time, causing flooding problems in Churchs Ferry.
June 2015HailChurchs Ferry-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindChurchs Ferry-no account filed
July 2002HailChurchs Ferry-no account filed
July 2002HailChurchs Ferry-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindChurchs Ferry-no account filed
July 2000HailChurchs Ferry-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindChurchs Ferry-no account filed
May 1998HailChurchs Ferry-no account filed
July 1996HailChurchs Ferry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
Penn6.3 miles10
Ramsey9.4 miles10
Grand Harbor12.9 miles14
Darby14.2 miles14
Webster16.7 miles8
Sweetwater17.3 miles14
Garske17.7 miles8
Lakewood Park19.4 miles14

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 Churchs FerryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q304414The 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 1028374. 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.