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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.

Flaxton within Burke County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Flaxton 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.

YearPeople Change
201066
202060-6 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 2016

Regional 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 use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1
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
1 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMA
24 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSORLIE
22 May 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGANSKO
24 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2016012
6 March 2016Other causes2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFLAXTON HOUSE BURN
13 March 2016Debris and open burning20 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2016006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002LightningFlaxton$50,000Lightning destroyed 4-400 barrel gas and oil storage tanks.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFlaxton$8,000Four trees blew over on a property with many trees.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFlaxton-Law enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2018HailFlaxton-no account filed
August 2016HailFlaxton-no account filed
July 2015HailFlaxton-no account filed
June 2012HailFlaxton-no account filed
July 2012Funnel CloudFlaxton-no account filed
July 2012HailFlaxton-no account filed
August 2010HailFlaxton-no account filed
August 2003HailFlaxton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burke 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
Woburn5.0 miles6
Perella7.5 miles6
Sevenmile Corner8.1 miles7
Lignite9.2 miles7
Northgate9.4 miles6
Bowbells10.2 miles8
Coteau10.5 miles6
Portal10.7 miles7

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 FlaxtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315721The 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.