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Colfax, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Colfax City. It lies in ZIP code area 58018. The Survey maps it on the Galchutt quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 961 feet above sea level.

Colfax within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Colfax grew from 121 to 172 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
2010121
2020172+51 (+42%)

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.

Storms near this place

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colfax in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 2 flash 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
June 1996Flash FloodColfax$10,000no account filed
June 2009Flash FloodColfax$5,000Several fields and farm access roads were flooded between Colfax, Galchutt, and Abercrombie in Abercrombie and southeast Colfax townships. In the town of Abercrombie, 15 to 20 basements were flooded.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindColfax$5,000Two large railroad crossing arms were blown over in the wind.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Colfax$2,000Several large trees were severely damaged along with some shingles.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindColfax$200Tree limbs were blown down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindColfax$200The strong wind blew several trees down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindColfax-Personal weather station in Colfax reports wind gusts to 62 MPH.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindColfax-Personal weather station in Colfax reports wind gusts to 62 MPH.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindColfax-Peak wind measured at a personal weather station.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindColfax-Report of large branches snapped as well as dead trees blown down.
July 2021HailColfax-Large, wind driven hail damaged fields across portions of western and central Colfax Township before 4 AM CDT.
August 2016HailColfax-Gusty winds were also reported.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindColfax-Several large tree branches were blown down in a shelterbelt. A nearby power pole was cracked and the power line was taken down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindColfax-Several large tree branches and limbs were broken down in shelterbelts across northern Abercrombie Township.
June 2009HailColfax-The large hail cracked windshields and stopped southbound traffic on Interstate 29 near mile point 36.
July 2008HailColfax-Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindColfax-Several large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts along Interstate 29.
August 2006Funnel CloudColfax-A persistent wall cloud and a funnel were observed.
May 2005Funnel CloudColfax-A persistent wall cloud with pendant funnel was viewed from Colfax.
June 2005Funnel CloudColfax-A wall cloud with pendant funnel was reported.
August 2005HailColfax-Hail ranged from pea to golfball size.
September 2005HailColfax-These storms also produced strong winds and 2.5 inches of rain. Numerous one to two inch diameter branches were broken off.
June 2018Funnel CloudColfax-no account filed
May 2011HailColfax-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindColfax-no account filed
May 2005HailColfax-no account filed
October 2004HailColfax-no account filed
June 2001HailColfax-no account filed
June 2001HailColfax-no account filed
July 2000HailColfax-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Pitcairn3.3 miles9
Walcott6.4 miles23
Enloe6.5 miles9
Galchutt6.6 miles9
Abercrombie7.8 miles9
Christine8.2 miles23
Lithia10.6 miles23
Dwight13.5 miles11

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 ColfaxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443021The 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 1028421. 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.