Clifford, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Norman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58016. The Survey maps it on the Galesburg quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Clifford within Traill County

Population over time

2 figures

Clifford fell from 44 to 30 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	44
2020	30	-14 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:24000
1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifford in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2019: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifford	$100,000	One 50,000 bushel grain bin was destroyed and 7 others were damaged. Many trees were uprooted.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifford	$15,000	A grain bin was lifted off its foundation and into a grain dryer.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifford	$5,000	Strong winds uprooted eight inch trees. ~ Steele County Pickert,04, 700CST,,,0,0,6,4,Hail (1.75) The hail did an estimated one million dollars damage to crops, vehicles, and buildings.
July 2019	Hail	Clifford	-	Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2015	Hail	Clifford	-	Large hail and strong winds produced widespread rooftop and crop damage in the Clifford area.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifford	-	Numerous large six to eight inch diameter tree branches were broken down in shelterbelts across northern Broadlawn and Galesburg townships.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifford	-	Four large steel grain bins at the elevator complex were blown down. One bin collapsed onto a parked vehicle but resulted in no injuries. Trees and power lines were also blown down.
August 2011	Hail	Clifford	-	no account filed
August 2011	Funnel Cloud	Clifford	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Clifford	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Clifford	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Clifford	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Clifford	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Clifford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Traill 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Galesburg	5.4 miles	9
Roseville	6.5 miles	8
Murray	8.9 miles	9
Blanchard	10.1 miles	10
Preston	10.5 miles	10
Portland	10.6 miles	9
Mayville	11.3 miles	9
Greenfield	11.4 miles	10

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 Clifford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1907401	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 1028396. 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.

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.