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Flasher, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58535. The Survey maps it on the Flasher quadrangle. 217 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,959 feet above sea level.

Flasher within Morton County

On record in Flasher

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Flasher fell from 232 to 217 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
2010232
2020217-15 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Flasher between 2016 and 2018, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
22 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHEY 21
8 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSHAFER
20 July 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRICHTER
7 May 2018Natural15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMILE MARKER 114
2 October 2016Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM 112

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flasher in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 21 hail, 13 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
August 2021HailFlasher$400,000Very large hail combined with wind gusts to cause extensive damage. At one farmstead, all windows were broken out of the north side of two homes. Steel siding was dented on one home, and vinyl siding was destroyed on the other. Five vehicles had their windows broken. Crops were flattened and trees were stripped of leaves. Other farmsteads in the area also had broken windows in their homes, and destroyed crops.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindFlasher$150,000A home sustained substantial damage due to straight line winds. Approximately one-half of the roofing on the west side of the home blew off, with much of the remaining metal roof covering on the west side also being blown off. An attached permanent front porch awning on the west side, a wheel barrow, and multiple children's toys were also blown away. The debris blew towards the east-northeast.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindFlasher$50,000A semi-truck and trailer were blown over by thunderstorm winds. The very strong winds continued for a few minutes after the truck blew over.
July 2016HailFlasher$50,000no account filed
May 2009Thunderstorm WindFlasher$20,000Thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in some structural damage to a farmstead along with isolated power outages in the area. Corral walls were blown down, windows were blown out, and some tree branches and shingles were reported on the ground.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindFlasher$3,000One tree on the end of a shelterbelt broke off just above ground level. A wind break panel was torn off and blown over a fence.
July 2019HailFlasher-Crop damage occurred with the large hail.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFlasher-The public estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Flasher-A tornado touched down in a rural area north of Flasher and traveled about one-tenth of a mile. No damage, injuries, or fatalities were reported. No structures were impacted and so the tornado was rated EF-0.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFlasher-Estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 miles per hour were reported northwest of Flasher.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFlasher-Numerous tree branches were blown down in Flasher from severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2008HailFlasher-This report was from the Severe Hail Verification Experiment. No damage was reported.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindFlasher-Reported by a NSW cooperative observer.
August 1995HailFlasher-Thunderstorm winds of 55 to 60 mph were also reported.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindFlasher-no account filed
August 2021HailFlasher-no account filed
July 2020HailFlasher-no account filed
August 2020HailFlasher-no account filed
June 2020HailFlasher-no account filed
June 2016HailFlasher-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindFlasher-no account filed
June 2016HailFlasher-no account filed
June 2016HailFlasher-no account filed
July 2016HailFlasher-no account filed
July 2016HailFlasher-no account filed
July 2016Funnel CloudFlasher-no account filed
July 2010HailFlasher-no account filed
July 2008HailFlasher-no account filed
June 2006HailFlasher-no account filed
August 2006HailFlasher-no account filed
July 2005HailFlasher-no account filed
June 2001HailFlasher-no account filed
July 2001HailFlasher-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFlasher-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFlasher-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindFlasher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morton 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
Fallon8.4 miles5
Timmer12.8 miles5
Breien16.3 miles5
Saint Anthony20.2 miles7
Lynwood22.5 miles7
Almont23.4 miles5
Judson25.7 miles5
Sweet Briar25.7 miles5

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 FlasherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28125The 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 1028981. 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.