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Epping, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Epping City. It lies in ZIP code area 58843. The Survey maps it on the Epping quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,215 feet above sea level.

Epping within Williams County

Population over time

2 figures

Epping fell from 100 to 84 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
2010100
202084-16 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Epping in 2019, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 November 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHESS LOCATION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Epping in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2010HailEpping$50,000The large hail resulted in borken windows in the town of Epping.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEpping$3,000Large tree branches were broken down by the thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEpping-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2014Funnel CloudEpping-North Dakota Department of Transportation webcam in Ray showed a funnel cloud west of Ray. There were no reports indicating this funnel cloud reached the surface.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindEpping-Reported as a tornado but no tornado or funnel cloud reported. Damage and eye witness reports suggest a very strong downburst wind. A line of 85 empty rail cars were tipped over between Epping and Wheelock. There was also some damage to a grain elevator and a blacksmith shop in Epping. A farmer lost the roof off a barn 2 miles southeast of Epping. Wind speeds of 98 kts (113 mph) have the force necessary to tip over box cars according to the Fujita scale.
July 1995Tornado (F0)Epping-Tornado destroyed a barn.
August 2025HailEpping-no account filed
August 2023HailEpping-no account filed
September 2019HailEpping-no account filed
September 2019HailEpping-no account filed
June 2016HailEpping-no account filed
September 2014HailEpping-no account filed
June 2012HailEpping-no account filed
July 2011HailEpping-no account filed
July 2010HailEpping-no account filed
May 2003HailEpping-no account filed
July 2003HailEpping-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williams 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
Wheelock5.7 miles7
Spring Brook5.7 miles7
Avoca11.0 miles6
Ray11.1 miles7
Long Creek13.3 miles7
Lunds Landing13.9 miles7
Lake Jessie15.1 miles7
Williston16.6 miles6

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 EppingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2310156The 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 1028896. 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.