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Cogswell, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cogswell City. It lies in ZIP code area 58017. The Survey maps it on the Cogswell quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.

Cogswell within Sargent County

Population over time

2 figures

Cogswell fell from 99 to 73 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
201099
202073-26 (-26%)

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.

Storms near this place

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cogswell in 25 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCogswell$200,000Numerous large tree limbs were broken down around town. A center pivot irrigation system four miles west of town was flipped. Widespread wind damage was evident throughout Harlem and Sargent townships.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindCogswell$5,000Tree damage was reported in Cogswell and a barn was destroyed.
May 1994HailCogswell$5,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindCogswell$1,000A satellite dish and a tree were blown down by the strong wind.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindCogswell$500Branches were blown down.
July 2018HailCogswell-The hail was mostly quarter sized, but there were some larger ones mixed in.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCogswell-Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were broken down in shelter belts.
June 2014Funnel CloudCogswell-A funnel cloud was observed.
August 2014Funnel CloudCogswell-The funnel passed directly over the town.
July 2007Tornado (EF0)Cogswell-The Bismarck NWS office received a public report of a brief tornado touchdown with movement to the southeast. The touchdown occurred in an open field with no damage.
June 2005HailCogswell-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2003Tornado (F1)Cogswell-The tornado had multiple brief touchdowns along the path, but had a dust and debris cloud. Witnesses also heard a roaring sound. Crops were damaged along the path.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCogswell-Power outages were reported in rural areas west of Cogswell.
July 2018HailCogswell-no account filed
July 2003HailCogswell-no account filed
June 2001HailCogswell-no account filed
May 1999HailCogswell-no account filed
June 1999HailCogswell-no account filed
June 1999HailCogswell-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Cogswell-no account filed
June 1998HailCogswell-no account filed
June 1998HailCogswell-no account filed
August 1997HailCogswell-no account filed
August 1997HailCogswell-no account filed
June 1997HailCogswell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sargent 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
Nicholson4.6 miles7
Harlem (historical)5.2 miles7
Stirum7.2 miles7
Straubville7.6 miles7
Forman7.7 miles7
Brampton7.7 miles7
Gwinner10.4 miles8
Hample10.6 miles8

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 CogswellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2033398The 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 1028415. 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.