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Drayton, North Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Drayton City. It lies in ZIP code area 58225. The Survey maps it on the Drayton quadrangle. 757 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Drayton within Pembina County

On record in Drayton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Drayton fell from 824 to 757 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
2010824
2020757-67 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Drayton in 2007, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 April 2007Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pembina County

Storms near this place

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drayton in 34 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2017LightningDrayton1 hurtA woman was struck by lightning at the Drayton ND golf course. Reports indicate that the golfer received a ground pulse from a distant lightning strike which traveled up her golf club.
April 2023FloodDrayton$174,000Drayton - Crest of 40.38 ft occurred on 5/17 (Noted in May 2023 storm data). Flooding extended into May.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type.
June 2016Flash FloodDrayton$10,000Interstate 29 near Drayton was temporarily closed due to flooding.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDrayton$3,000Trees were blown down in Drayton.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDrayton$1,000Large trees were blown down at the cemetary.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindDrayton$1,000Trees were blown down.
May 2023FloodDrayton-Drayton - Crest of 40.38 ft occurred on 5/1. Flooding began in April.
June 2023Flash FloodDrayton-Pembina county EM reports flooding occurring on I-29. Water over the roadway.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindDrayton-A few large tree branches were found to be broken down in shelter belts in eastern Drayton Township.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDrayton-A few 3 to 5 inch diameter branches were blown down around town.
June 2020HailDrayton-The hail fell along Interstate 29, near the sugar beet plant.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindDrayton-Tree and roof damage was reported throughout town.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDrayton-A semi was blown off of Interstate 29.
July 2015FloodDrayton-Streets and fields were flooded by the heavy rain.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindDrayton-A few large trees and several large tree branches were blown down or snapped by the wind in and near Drayton.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDrayton-A tree was snapped and a wooden roadside sign was broken down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindDrayton-A 60 foot tall pine tree was uprooted and a 1 foot diameter oak tree was snapped off. Shingle damage also occurred.
July 2011Heavy RainDrayton-An observer reported 3.50 inches of rain in Drayton. Water rose up to some car doors in town.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDrayton-Large tree branches were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDrayton-One home in Drayton sustained roof damage when a large tree branch punctured the roof and ceiling. Dozens of branches were knocked off trees around town.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDrayton-Road signs along Interstate 29 were blown down.
June 2010HailDrayton-no account filed
May 2007HailDrayton-no account filed
August 2004HailDrayton-no account filed
May 2002HailDrayton-no account filed
June 2002HailDrayton-no account filed
June 2002HailDrayton-no account filed
August 2001HailDrayton-no account filed
August 2001HailDrayton-no account filed
June 2000HailDrayton-no account filed
June 2000HailDrayton-no account filed
August 2000HailDrayton-no account filed
August 1999HailDrayton-no account filed
May 1998HailDrayton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pembina 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
Pittsburgh4.0 miles13
Bowesmont8.2 miles13
Fleece13.1 miles14
Saint Thomas14.6 miles11
Dimock (historical)15.2 miles10
Glasston17.1 miles10
Joliette17.2 miles14
McArthur21.2 miles14

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 DraytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443556The 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 1028722. 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.