BlockDunn Center, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1974. It stands in Dunn Center City. It lies in ZIP code area 58626. The Survey maps it on the Dunn Center quadrangle. 227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,188 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDunn Center grew from 146 to 227 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 | 146 | |
| 2020 | 227 | +81 (+55%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Dunn Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Killdeer quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Dunn Center between 1993 and 2015, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge | LEE PAUL SLOUGH |
| 25 August 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Audubon National Wildlife Refuge | LAKE ILO |
| 10 November 1999 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Audubon National Wildlife Refuge | ILOLEEPAUL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunn Center in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunn Center | 1 hurt, $300,000 | Minor injuries occurred to a 9 year old female that was inside a 5th wheel trailer-camper that tipped over. A horse trailer nearby also tipped over. Farm outbuildings and fences were damaged and trees were snapped. There was speculation that the damage could have been caused by a tornado, but determination from photo evidence was that this damage was caused by very high straight line thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunn Center | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Dunn Center | - | An Amateur Radio Operator reported a very brief tornado touchdown. The tornado quickly lifted and there was no damage indicated. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Dunn Center | - | No damage was reported. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Dunn Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunn Center | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Dunn Center | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunn Center | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Dunn Center | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Dunn Center | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Dunn Center | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q518947 | 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 1028746. 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.