BlockGilby, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gilby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58235. The Survey maps it on the Gilby quadrangle. 243 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGilby grew from 237 to 243 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 | 237 | |
| 2020 | 243 | +6 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1926 USGS Ardoch quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Gilby quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
17 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilby in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Gilby | $1,000,000 | After receiving 15 to 20 inches of rain over portions of western Grand Forks county, flash flooding hit the town of Gilby. The flooding temporarily wiped out the drinking water supply for the 250 people of Gilby. Nearly all of the 100 homes in town had water in their basements. Just northeast of Gilby, two teenage boys were injured when they drove around a barracade and into water overflowing a county road. One broke a leg and the other injured his head. A 30-40 yard section of railroad track was washed out south of Gilby. Volunteers from the Grand Forks Air Force Base helped sandbag portions of the town. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilby | $15,000 | Many homes in Gilby had some sort of wind damage. The boards on an outdoor hockey rink were blown over. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilby | $10,000 | A roof was blown off a building. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilby | $1,000 | Trees were damaged by the wind. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Gilby | - | Several bursts of dime to quarter sized hail persisted for about 10 minutes, through 1050 pm. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilby | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Gilby | - | The hail was mostly dime sized, but there were a few nickel sized stones mixed in too. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilby | - | A few large tree branches and limbs were broken down in shelterbelts across central Gilby Township. A thunderstorm squall and associated downburst dust plume was seen moving northward into the Gilby area around this time. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilby | - | The tops of several trees were snapped off. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Gilby | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell near Gilby. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Gilby | - | The tornado tracked northward intermittently for about two miles. No damage was detected as the tornado stayed largely over open fields. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Gilby | - | Pea to penny sized hail fell at Gilby. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gilby | - | About 12 trees were knocked down by strong winds. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Gilby | - | The tornado briefly touched down in an open field. |
| July 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Gilby | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Gilby | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Gilby | - | 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 Gilby | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1942521 | 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 1029123. 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.
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.