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Great Bend, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Great Bend City. It lies in ZIP code area 58075. The Survey maps it on the Great Bend quadrangle. 49 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Great Bend within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Great Bend fell from 60 to 49 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
201060
202049-11 (-18%)

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

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Great Bend between 2015 and 2020, burning about 29 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBLADOW BALES
30 April 2015Debris and open burning17 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWEBER RIVER BOTTOM
18 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2020-3855
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2020034

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Great Bend in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2002Thunderstorm WindGreat Bend1 hurt, $20,000Outflow from a thunderstorm knocked 2 semi trucks off Interstate 29 west of Wahpeton.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindGreat Bend$50,000About one-half mile of power poles were snapped near the intersection of county roads 16 and 1. A barn and silo at a farmstead were heavily damaged. Peak winds were estimated at 80 to 90 mph.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGreat Bend$5,000The strong wind overturned a truck into the ditch.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindGreat Bend$500Large branches were blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindGreat Bend-Several 3 to 5 inch diameter branches were blown down around town.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindGreat Bend-Several five inch diameter tree branches were blown down. The wind was accompanied by dime to nickel sized hail.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindGreat Bend-Large trees were broken down or uprooted. At the ball park, fencing was blown down and metal stands were tumbled.
June 2015Tornado (EF1)Great Bend-Numerous trees were snapped and a steel grain bin was blown off its foundation at one farmstead. A neighboring farmstead also had numerous large branches blown down. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.
June 2005Flash FloodGreat Bend-Interstate 29 was reduced to one lane of traffic because of water on the road.
August 2005Flash FloodGreat Bend-Excessive rainfall of 3 to 5 inches caused many area ditches and creeks to overflow into fields and across farm access roads. High water flooded several sections of cropland and several farmyards in Brandenburg and Summit Townships. Grain harvest equipment was stranded by flood waters and many farm vehicles had to be moved from flooded areas during the late night and pre-dawn hours.
May 2004Flash FloodGreat Bend-Two to three inches of rain fell over portions of Richland county. County road 15 from Great Bend to one mile south of Great Bend was under water. Several other roads were closed and some basements were flooded.
August 1999HailGreat Bend-The hail occurred at the Interstate 29 interchange.
May 2010HailGreat Bend-no account filed
August 2004HailGreat Bend-no account filed
July 1998HailGreat Bend-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Bayne6.7 miles10
Sonora6.8 miles9
Oswald7.6 miles9
Hankinson7.9 miles10
Fairview Junction8.0 miles10
Farmington8.3 miles10
Mooreton8.8 miles10
Mantador9.3 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 Great BendAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q672501The 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 1029232. 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.