BlockGolden Valley, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1974. It stands in Golden Valley City. It lies in ZIP code area 58541. It stands on Goodman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Golden Valley quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,955 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGolden Valley grew from 182 to 191 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 | 182 | |
| 2020 | 191 | +9 (+5%) |
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 Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Golden Valley quadrangle1:24000
- 1974 USGS Killdeer 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 Golden Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 352 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 16 May 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GVRFPD 2020003 |
| 15 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | JEFF OLIGER |
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 Golden Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2444406 | 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 1029155. 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.