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.
Population over time
2 figuresChurchs 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 12 | |
| 2020 | 9 | -3 (-25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Churchs Ferry quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Churchs Ferry quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LEE |
| 2 May 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | POLE |
| 12 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1,600 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PENN FIRE |
| 11 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | CHURCHES FERRY FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Churchs Ferry | $250,000 | Fields and farm access roads were flooded across eastern Coulee and western Dry Lake townships. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churchs Ferry | $100,000 | Strong 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 2009 | Flood | Churchs Ferry | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Churchs Ferry | - | The hail fell off and on for about five minutes. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churchs Ferry | - | Large branches were broken off trees. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Churchs Ferry | - | Yards, fields, and basements were flooded. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Churchs Ferry | - | 5.5 inches of rain fell in a short period of time, causing flooding problems in Churchs Ferry. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Churchs Ferry | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Churchs Ferry | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penn | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Ramsey | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Grand Harbor | 12.9 miles | 14 | |
| Darby | 14.2 miles | 14 | |
| Webster | 16.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sweetwater | 17.3 miles | 14 | |
| Garske | 17.7 miles | 8 | |
| Lakewood Park | 19.4 miles | 14 |
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 Ferry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q304414 | 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 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.




