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Coleharbor, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1972. It stands in Victoria Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58531. The Survey maps it on the Coleharbor quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,906 feet above sea level.

Coleharbor within McLean County

Population over time

2 figures

Coleharbor fell from 79 to 59 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
201079
202059-20 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Coleharbor between 1999 and 2012, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
22 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAudubon National Wildlife RefugeBALE
15 July 2006Natural1.9 acresAudubon National Wildlife RefugePOWERLINE
6 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAudubon National Wildlife RefugeGOOD FRIDAY POWERLINE
15 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAudubon National Wildlife Refuge83 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

27 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coleharbor in 27 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindColeharbor2 hurt, $3,000,000A National Weather Service storm damage survey was completed 0715 CST to 1500 CST the day following the event, July 13, 2006. NWS meteorologist was accompanied by the Mclean County Emergency Manager. Damage was extensive and severe. Nearly every building in the town of about 80 people was damaged. The degree of damage varied with heavier damage to structures and trees on the west side of the town, including to a school built in 1916 and used until the mid 1960s. Just across highway 83, on the west side of town, an empty railroad coal car was off the tracks and on its side. The structural and tree damage pattern, coupled with comments from eye witnesses and 88D RADAR data, led to the determination that the event was a wet microburst with wind speeds in excess of 100 mph. Storms were multicellular in structure. Witnesses described a shelf cloud approaching, followed by the high wind, and then very heavy rain. There were two very minor injuries and no fatalities. The two injuries were in a camper that was rolled by the wind and destroyed. Coleharbor covers an area about 1/4 mile by 1/4 mile. Damage covered an area just under 4 km or just under 2 1/2 miles on a side. Outside of town the damage included a barn, many trees, and moved straw or hay bales. The ND Department of Transportation had weather instrumentation along highway 83 on the west side of Coleharbor. The Environmental Sensor Station had an engineered wind resistance of 120 mph and was lying on the ground following the storm. See photo. See entry for Mclean County 1 E Coleharbor 1828 CST to 1837 CST July 12, 2006.
July 2006LightningColeharbor$15,00075 year old barn was struck by lightning, caught fire, and was destroyed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindColeharbor$10,000Roof blown off building and trees down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindColeharbor$8,000Measured with a Davis weather instrument. Severe criteria wind from 1828 CST to 1837 CST. Gust peaked at 92 mph. Damage to outbuilding garage door. A witness 1 E Coleharbor who is self taught in the science of meteorology described a shelf cloud approach followed by the high damaging wind.
August 2019HailColeharbor$5,000Wind driven hail led to tree and crop damage.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindColeharbor$5,000The public reported an estimated severe thunderstorm wind gust of 70 mph. Tree branches were broken.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindColeharbor$5,000Storage facility under construction was damaged.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-Wind driven hail led to crop damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-Heavy rain accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2008HailColeharbor-No report of damage was received from this event.
July 2008HailColeharbor-No reports of damage were received.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-Peak gust recorded by a Davis Wind Recorder instrument.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-no account filed
August 2019HailColeharbor-no account filed
May 2016Funnel CloudColeharbor-no account filed
April 2016Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-no account filed
September 2014HailColeharbor-no account filed
August 2012HailColeharbor-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-no account filed
August 2011Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-no account filed
May 2006HailColeharbor-no account filed
September 2005HailColeharbor-no account filed
June 2003HailColeharbor-no account filed
July 2003HailColeharbor-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindColeharbor-no account filed
June 2000HailColeharbor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Riverdale Junction4.0 miles8
Underwood7.6 miles8
Riverdale8.5 miles7
Garrison12.6 miles8
Falkirk14.3 miles9
Turtle Lake17.8 miles8
Max19.5 miles5
Washburn20.4 miles9

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 ColeharborAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447209The 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 1028419. 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.