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Emerado, North Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Emerado City. It lies in ZIP code area 58228. It stands on Hazen Brook. The Survey maps it on the Emerado quadrangle. 443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Emerado within Grand Forks County

Population over time

2 figures

Emerado grew from 414 to 443 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
2010414
2020443+29 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Emerado between 1996 and 2020, burning about 130 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
7 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-00064
1 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictHAYFIRE
7 July 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM 344, US 2 TREE ROW
31 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service1751 21ST NE AVE GRASS/BRUSH FIRE
25 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 2 FIRE
24 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPENDER WPA
17 May 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service22
13 May 2013Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Emerado: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Roader Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Slottrud PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand Forks County

Storms near this place

40 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emerado in 40 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 17 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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
August 1994Thunderstorm WindEmerado1 hurt, $30,000no account filed
July 2020FloodEmerado$150,000Flood waters poured over the eastbound lanes of highway 2. Local fields and farm access roads were inundated. Some field erosion from overland flooding was noted across portions of Chester and Oakville townships.
June 2020Flash FloodEmerado$100,000Flooding was reported in Emerado, with water filled ditches and water against homes. Roughly 3 to 5 inches of rain had fallen.
June 1998Flash FloodEmerado$100,0001 to 3 inches of rain fell in less than two hours, causing flooding problems around Emerado. Many fields were flooded.
July 2020Flash FloodEmerado$50,000Flooding was reported in Emerado, with water filled ditches and water against homes. Roughly 3 to 10 inches of rain fell.
July 2004Tornado (F1)Emerado$10,000Many trees were severely damaged along a four mile path south of Emerado. Three trees fell on a granary 9.5 miles south of Emerado.
July 2024FloodEmerado$500Between 5 and 7 pm, 3.22 inches of rain fell at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. Result was flooded roads. By order of the Grand Forks AFB, non-essential vehicle traffic was prohibited due to flooding at the time of the report.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindEmerado-Measured wind on NDAWN 33 ft sensor at Emerado.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindEmerado-Emerado NDAWN reports a 59 mph wind gust.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindEmerado-A couple of cottonwood trees were blown down; time was estimated based on radar.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindEmerado-About one third of the shingles and a few pieces of plywood roofing were torn off an apartment building.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindEmerado-A large tree was uprooted.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Emerado-A deputy reported a touchdown around 2 miles south of the intersection of Grand Forks County 3 and 6. This tornado was viewed and reported by Grand Forks Air Force Base observers and was also videoed from a point south of the Grand Forks airport looking west. Though the tornado tracked over fields and shelterbelts there was no significant damage noted. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2016HailEmerado-A one mile stretch of U. S. Highway 2 was covered by hail, making it quite slippery. One car ended up in the ditch.
August 2016HailEmerado-Large hail fell across southern Oakville and Chester townships.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEmerado-Numerous trees were blown down in shelterbelts.
June 2006Funnel CloudEmerado-A persistent wall cloud and funnel were reported.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEmerado-The wind gust was measured by a ND DOT RWIS sensor along U.S. Highway 2.
July 2004HailEmerado-Three-quarters of the windows on a house were broken by the large hail. The ground was white with hail.
July 2004HailEmerado-The large hail dented a pickup truck and broke a door-mounted mirror. Several storm windows on the farmhouse were broken.
July 2004HailEmerado-About 1,500 acres of crops were damaged. The hail also dented vehicles and left holes in the ground.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Emerado-A tornado briefly touched down southeast of Emerado.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Emerado-A tornado touchdown was reported, paralleling county road 6.
June 2000Tornado (F1)Emerado-A fairly large tornado touched down and clipped some power lines and trees.
July 2018Funnel CloudEmerado-no account filed
August 2018HailEmerado-no account filed
July 2011HailEmerado-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEmerado-no account filed
July 2005HailEmerado-no account filed
July 2005HailEmerado-no account filed
May 2004HailEmerado-no account filed
July 2004HailEmerado-no account filed
August 2004HailEmerado-no account filed
July 2003HailEmerado-no account filed
August 2002HailEmerado-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindEmerado-no account filed
August 2001HailEmerado-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEmerado-no account filed
May 2000HailEmerado-no account filed
August 1996HailEmerado-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Forks 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
Ojata (historical)5.1 miles16
Mekinock6.5 miles9
Arvilla6.9 miles15
Kelly7.6 miles13
Honeyford9.7 miles9
Powell9.9 miles13
Gilby12.8 miles9
Larimore13.9 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 EmeradoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2071837The 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 1028876. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.