Forman, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Forman City. It lies in ZIP code area 58032. The Survey maps it on the Forman quadrangle. 509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,253 feet above sea level.
On record in Forman
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
Sargent County Courthouselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresForman grew from 504 to 509 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 | 504 | |
| 2020 | 509 | +5 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Forman quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
9 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Forman between 2012 and 2016, burning about 247 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 burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HUFFMAN FIRE |
| 14 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | FRITZEN |
| 21 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | RINGDAHL |
| 10 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MILLER |
| 14 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 332016 |
| 21 November 2012 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PEARSON |
| 20 November 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RINDAHL |
| 26 October 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | PEARSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forman in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forman | $250,000 | Several houses lost shingles or had siding or roofing damages. Numerous large trees and tree limbs were broken down around town. Widespread wind damage was evident throughout Bowen and Forman townships. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forman | $15,000 | Strong winds blew down a pole barn. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forman | $2,000 | Many trees were blown down just northeast of Forman. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forman | $1,000 | Strong wind knocked down trees in Forman. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Forman | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Forman | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell over portions of central Forman Township. |
| August 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Forman | - | The funnel was near the school on the west end of town. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Forman | - | A wall cloud was also observed to the south. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Forman | - | The report of dime to quarter size hail came from a North Dakota Atmospheric Resources Board observer. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forman | - | Large willow trees were uprooted and a small building was leveled by the strong wind. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Forman | - | The tornado tracked through open country. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forman | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Forman | - | Large trees and power lines were blown down. One tree blocked a road and another fell on and damaged a garage. A radio tower was also knocked over. |
| July 2002 | Flash Flood | Forman | - | Street flooding was reported in Forman along with water backing up around the school. |
| April 2001 | Flash Flood | Forman | - | 1.50 to 2 inches of rain fell across Sargent county, flooding some rural roads. Most of the rain ended up as runoff, as the ground was still saturated from the spring snowmelt. |
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Forman | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Forman | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Forman | - | 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 Forman | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2021484 | 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 1029006. 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.




