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.
Population over time
2 figuresGackle 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 310 | |
| 2020 | 281 | -29 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Gackle North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Steele quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ROSS KLEINGARTNER |
| 23 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DEAN ENTZMINGER |
| 7 November 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
31 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Hail | Gackle | 1 hurt, $20,000 | One 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 1997 | Lightning | Gackle | $50,000 | lightning 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gackle | $25,000 | The 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gackle | $9,000 | Five large pines blown over in the north city park of Gackle. |
| July 2006 | Lightning | Gackle | $4,000 | Lightning 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 2006 | Hail | Gackle | $1,000 | Broke out house windows. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Gackle | - | Heavy rain accompanied the hail with 1.45 inches reported. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gackle | - | Cooperative observer reported numerous tree branches down. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gackle | - | branches down |
| September 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| September 2022 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gackle | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Gackle | - | 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 Gackle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q611338 | 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 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.



