Dwight, North Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Dwight City. It lies in ZIP code area 58075. The Survey maps it on the Dwight quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 955 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDwight fell from 82 to 80 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 | 82 | |
| 2020 | 80 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1904 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Dwight quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Dwight between 2017 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1378 |
| 6 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 904 |
| 26 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 3245 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwight in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | $200 | The strong wind blew trees down. |
| October 2021 | Funnel Cloud | Dwight | - | One or more developing funnels were noted by trained spotters to the southwest and west of Wahpeton. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | The wind gusts were measured by a ND DOT RWIS station. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | The wind gust was measured at the RWIS sensor along highway 13. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Dwight | - | A swath of large hail and damaging winds to 70 mph produced widespread tree and crop damage across central Dwight-West Township. In the town of Dwight, a few large trees were snapped at the base while large tree branches were broken off throughout the town. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Dwight | - | Hail up to hen egg size fell. |
| August 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Dwight | - | A persistent wall cloud with a brief funnel was viewed from northwest Wahpeton. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Dwight | - | The report came in through Facebook. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | The winds were measured by a ND DOT RWIS sensor along highway 13. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | The wind gust was measured by an NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dwight | - | Several large tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2002 | Lightning | Dwight | - | A lightning strike caused a house fire. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Dwight | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Dwight | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmington | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Fairview Junction | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Galchutt | 6.9 miles | 9 | |
| Wahpeton | 7.5 miles | 11 | |
| Mooreton | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Abercrombie | 9.9 miles | 9 | |
| Pitcairn | 10.2 miles | 9 | |
| Elmore | 10.3 miles | 9 |
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 Dwight | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2049587 | 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 1028755. 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.





