Golva, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Lone Tree Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58632. The Survey maps it on the Golva quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,831 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGolva grew from 61 to 84 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 | 61 | |
| 2020 | 84 | +23 (+38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Belfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Golva quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Golva quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
48 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Golva in 48 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 25 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | $450,000 | Significant and severe damage was done from extreme winds on the leading edge of the line of thunderstorms. Twenty-four consecutive wooden power poles were snapped, brand new storage bins were destroyed, trailers and a camper were flipped, and outbuildings were damaged. Nearly 100 hay bales were rolled, most of them destroyed. There was significant crop damage. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Golva | $75,000 | Hail was driven by 60 mph winds, breaking 3 windows and damaging the siding on a home. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | $7,000 | The storm was accompanied by nickel size hail 0.88 inch diameter and very heavy rain. There was some damage to siding. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Golva | $5,000 | The tornado knocked down six inch in diameter trees on a rural ranch. This tornado was rated as EF0 with estimated wind speeds around 75 mph. |
| June 2006 | Lightning | Golva | $2,000 | Lightning strikes in the Golva area started a grass fire that burned 50 hay bales. Report through newspaper. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 mph were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| May 2011 | Heavy Rain | Golva | - | A storm total rainfall of 1.50 inches was reported. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Golva | - | No damage was reported. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | The storm was accompanied by pea size hail and very heavy rain. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Golva | - | Mostly penny size hail with a few golfball size. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Golva | - | Trained spotter reported ground white from hail and wind gust to 60 mph accompanied the storm. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F2) | Golva | - | The tornado remained in open country but hit a farmstead causing major damage. Windows blown out. Singles and siding ripped off. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Golva | - | This is the same storm which produced an f2 tornado 5 miles east...northeast of Golva. Reportes of "rivers" of water and hail caused localize flooding. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Golva | - | Flash flooding resulted in the death of several livestock. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Golva | - | Up to 3 inches of rain fell in a 2 hour period associated with drifts of hail caused overland flooding and washing out back roads. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Golva | - | Several windows, skylights and roof damage to a farmstead. Hail accumulated up to 5 inches in yard. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Golva | - | Localized flooding from very heavy rain. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | Numerous trees downd. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Golva | - | The storm produced a 45 minuate hail storm which broke out windows of homes, automobles and shredded siding on a home. Six antelope were killed. Several cattle were injured. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Golva | - | Windows in automobles and homes broken. Localized flooding. The hail storm lasted 40 minuates. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Golva | - | no account filed |
| September 2010 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Golva | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Golva | - | 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 Golva | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2447149 | 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 1034887. 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.




