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Gackle, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gackle City. It lies in ZIP code area 58442. The Survey maps it on the Gackle North quadrangle. 281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,936 feet above sea level.

Gackle within Logan County

Population over time

2 figures

Gackle fell from 310 to 281 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
2010310
2020281-29 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Gackle between 2005 and 2016, burning about 4 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 use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceROSS KLEINGARTNER
23 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDEAN ENTZMINGER
7 November 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gackle in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 22 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 1998HailGackle1 hurt, $20,000One person was hit on the head while trying to get horses into the barn. Other damage occurred to neon signs, skylights, cars and windows.
July 1997LightningGackle$50,000lightning struck the house at 1150 in the morning...causing the insulation to smolder until 1130 pm in the evening when the fire finally broke out. The house and all contents inside were completely destroyed.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGackle$25,000The severe thunderstorm winds blew down numerous tree branches, including one tree snapped off on the west side of Gackle. Other wind damage included a flag pole bent over and a television antenna blown off of a roof.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGackle$9,000Five large pines blown over in the north city park of Gackle.
July 2006LightningGackle$4,000Lightning struck a granary roof, damaging the roof near a metal covered landing door and blowing wood off near the door. Lightning also started a fire in the nearby pasture.
May 2006HailGackle$1,000Broke out house windows.
August 2006HailGackle-Heavy rain accompanied the hail with 1.45 inches reported.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindGackle-Cooperative observer reported numerous tree branches down.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindGackle-branches down
September 2023Funnel CloudGackle-no account filed
September 2022HailGackle-no account filed
September 2022HailGackle-no account filed
June 2021HailGackle-no account filed
June 2021HailGackle-no account filed
July 2021HailGackle-no account filed
August 2020HailGackle-no account filed
September 2018HailGackle-no account filed
July 2010HailGackle-no account filed
August 2007HailGackle-no account filed
May 2007HailGackle-no account filed
June 2006HailGackle-no account filed
June 2006HailGackle-no account filed
August 2006HailGackle-no account filed
August 2006HailGackle-no account filed
August 2006HailGackle-no account filed
August 2005HailGackle-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGackle-no account filed
July 2000HailGackle-no account filed
July 2000HailGackle-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGackle-no account filed
July 1999HailGackle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Fredonia20.6 miles7
Guyson22.9 miles7
Burnstad30.8 miles7
Peters34.3 miles7
Napoleon34.3 miles6

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 GackleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q611338The 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 1029070. 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.