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Fordville, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fordville City. It lies in ZIP code area 58231. It stands on Middle Branch Forest River. The Survey maps it on the Fordville quadrangle. 207 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,145 feet above sea level.

Fordville within Walsh County

Population over time

2 figures

Fordville fell from 212 to 207 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
2010212
2020207-5 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fordville between 2015 and 2017, burning about 104 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
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
31 July 2017Smoking100 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGILLESPIE FIRE
14 December 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHOLTERS HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walsh County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fordville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fordville Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fordville State PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walsh County

Storms near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fordville in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindFordville$5,000A grain dryer was tipped and trees were blown down.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindFordville-A tree was snapped off at its base and the Fordville scale house was blown down.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Fordville-The tornado remained over open fields east of Fordville. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFordville-Large trees were blown down in Fordville. The time was estimated.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFordville-4 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2002Flash FloodFordville-Water was flowing across highway 32.
July 2015HailFordville-no account filed
June 2006HailFordville-no account filed
July 2005HailFordville-no account filed
September 2004HailFordville-no account filed
June 2000HailFordville-no account filed
July 1998HailFordville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walsh 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
Conway6.3 miles8
Pisek7.8 miles8
Lankin9.6 miles8
Ops10.3 miles8
Pleasant Valley11.2 miles8
Park River12.8 miles8
Veseleyville14.4 miles8
Kerry16.5 miles9

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 FordvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q969824The 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 1029001. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.