Flaxton, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Flaxton City. It lies in ZIP code area 58737. The Survey maps it on the Flaxton quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,939 feet above sea level.
On record in Flaxton
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
Burke County World War Memorial Halllisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresFlaxton fell from 66 to 60 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 | 66 | |
| 2020 | 60 | -6 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1947 USGS Flaxton quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Flaxton quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Flaxton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Flaxton between 2016 and 2020, burning about 28 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | MA |
| 24 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SORLIE |
| 22 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GANSKO |
| 24 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2016012 |
| 6 March 2016 | Other causes | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FLAXTON HOUSE BURN |
| 13 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2016006 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flaxton in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 2002 | Lightning | Flaxton | $50,000 | Lightning destroyed 4-400 barrel gas and oil storage tanks. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxton | $8,000 | Four trees blew over on a property with many trees. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flaxton | - | Law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Flaxton | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Flaxton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Flaxton | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Flaxton | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Flaxton | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Flaxton | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Flaxton | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Flaxton | - | 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 Flaxton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2315721 | 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 1028986. 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.





