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Embden, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Eldred Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58079. The Survey maps it on the Embden quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Embden within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Embden fell from 59 to 41 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
201059
202041-18 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

16 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Embden between 2001 and 2020, burning about 1,045 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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
2 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE - CASSELTON
3 July 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE3
14 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE UNIT 2
7 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceEMBDEN
4 June 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE1
11 May 2002Smoking648 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictKRAUS
8 April 2005Arson/incendiarism76 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE WPA
8 April 2005Arson/incendiarism21 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE WPA3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Embden in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 8 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2007HailEmbden$1,000,000A two foot deep drift of hail was left next to one home. Hail knocked out several windows at another home. Wind driven (70 mph) hail also damaged an extensive amount of cropland across the Howes, Gill, Eldred, and Walburg Townships.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindEmbden$1,000,000A two mile section of aluminum high voltage power towers were crumpled by downburst winds and at least one tornado. The nine towers were operated by Minnkota Power Cooperative. Wind speeds likely exceeded 100 miles per hour based on utility company estimates. Extensive crop damage occurred across the Highland and Watson Townships.
July 2007Tornado (EF2)Embden$250,000The tornado toppled a barn, severely injuring a horse. It tumbled farm outbuildings and toppled one high voltage power tower. The tower was made of steel and had four footings. Peak winds were estimated at 125 mph.
July 2017HailEmbden-Heavy rain and large hail fell across northern Eldred Township.
May 2005Flash FloodEmbden-Streets and fields were flooded.
June 2007HailEmbden-no account filed
May 2005HailEmbden-no account filed
September 2005HailEmbden-no account filed
September 2002HailEmbden-no account filed
July 2001HailEmbden-no account filed
September 2000HailEmbden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Chaffee4.7 miles11
Myra7.0 miles11
Alice7.1 miles10
Magnolia7.6 miles11
Wheatland8.6 miles11
Lynchburg9.2 miles11
Buffalo10.2 miles10
Everest11.9 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 EmbdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4138211The 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 1028874. 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.