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Glenfield, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58443. The Survey maps it on the Glenfield quadrangle. 94 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,493 feet above sea level.

Glenfield within Foster County

Population over time

2 figures

Glenfield grew from 91 to 94 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
201091
202094+3 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Glenfield between 2015 and 2016, burning about 18 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 burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
22 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWICK FIELD
1 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceOLD ROGER LONGNECKER FARM
15 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTIM HOYT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Foster County

Storms near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenfield in 16 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindGlenfield$75,000Multiple power lines and trees were down. A tractor-trailer truck was blown over.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Glenfield-This tornado touched down in the open country. There were no impacts to structures and so no reports of damage.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGlenfield-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindGlenfield-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGlenfield-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindGlenfield-no account filed
June 2022HailGlenfield-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindGlenfield-no account filed
June 2019Funnel CloudGlenfield-no account filed
July 2001HailGlenfield-no account filed
June 1999HailGlenfield-no account filed
August 1997HailGlenfield-no account filed
June 1997HailGlenfield-no account filed
June 1994HailGlenfield-no account filed
August 1994HailGlenfield-no account filed
August 1994HailGlenfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Foster 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
Juanita7.0 miles8
McHenry8.6 miles8
Grace City14.3 miles12
Bordulac21.5 miles10
Melville26.1 miles9
Carrington29.6 miles9
Guptill30.6 miles10
Barlow31.3 miles10

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 GlenfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447038The 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 1029138. 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.