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.
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
Hotel Brownlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresFlasher 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 232 | |
| 2020 | 217 | -15 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Flasher quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2016Regional 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 use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HEY 21 |
| 8 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SHAFER |
| 20 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RICHTER |
| 7 May 2018 | Natural | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MILE MARKER 114 |
| 2 October 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MM 112 |
Storms near this place
36 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Hail | Flasher | $400,000 | Very 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | $150,000 | A 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | $50,000 | A 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 2016 | Hail | Flasher | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | $20,000 | Thunderstorm 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | $3,000 | One 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 2019 | Hail | Flasher | - | Crop damage occurred with the large hail. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | The public estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Tornado (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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | Estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 miles per hour were reported northwest of Flasher. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | Numerous tree branches were blown down in Flasher from severe thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flasher | - | This report was from the Severe Hail Verification Experiment. No damage was reported. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | Reported by a NSW cooperative observer. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Flasher | - | Thunderstorm winds of 55 to 60 mph were also reported. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flasher | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fallon | 8.4 miles | 5 | |
| Timmer | 12.8 miles | 5 | |
| Breien | 16.3 miles | 5 | |
| Saint Anthony | 20.2 miles | 7 | |
| Lynwood | 22.5 miles | 7 | |
| Almont | 23.4 miles | 5 | |
| Judson | 25.7 miles | 5 | |
| Sweet Briar | 25.7 miles | 5 |
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 Flasher | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28125 | 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 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.



