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.
Population over time
2 figuresEmbden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 59 | |
| 2020 | 41 | -18 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Embden quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
16 since 2001Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE - CASSELTON |
| 3 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE3 |
| 14 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE UNIT 2 |
| 7 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | EMBDEN |
| 4 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE1 |
| 11 May 2002 | Smoking | 648 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | KRAUS |
| 8 April 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 76 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE WPA |
| 8 April 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 21 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE WPA3 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Hail | Embden | $1,000,000 | A 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Embden | $1,000,000 | A 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 2007 | Tornado (EF2) | Embden | $250,000 | The 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 2017 | Hail | Embden | - | Heavy rain and large hail fell across northern Eldred Township. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Embden | - | Streets and fields were flooded. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Embden | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Embden | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Embden | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Embden | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Embden | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Embden | - | 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 Embden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4138211 | 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 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.






