Hamilton, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58238. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHamilton fell from 61 to 46 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 | 46 | -15 (-25%) |
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.
- 1941 USGS Bathgate 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
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Hamilton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hamilton in 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 August 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | HWY 81 GRASS FIRE |
| 3 May 2018 | Natural | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | DITCH FIRE |
Storms near this place
14 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamilton in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Hamilton | $5,000 | A funnel cloud was viewed by observers. A damage survey found evidence of a brief touchdown with several trees snapped off in a shelterbelt. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | $200 | Two trees were blown down. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | $200 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Hamilton | - | Received a public report of dime to quarter-sized hail. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Hamilton | - | Lots of pea to dime sized hail. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in town. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Hamilton | - | Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail fell across central Hamilton Township, along with very heavy rain and strong winds. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | Several six to ten inch diameter tree limbs and branches were broken down on the west side of town. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | Strong winds snapped a flagpole in half and stripped sections of siding from a house. Numerous tree branches were also blown down. |
| May 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Hamilton | - | A brief tornado touchdown occurred in an open field. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamilton | - | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Hamilton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Hamilton | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bathgate | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Glasston | 7.1 miles | 10 | |
| Cavalier | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Dimock (historical) | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Joliette | 12.0 miles | 14 | |
| McArthur | 12.8 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Thomas | 13.1 miles | 11 | |
| Neche | 13.4 miles | 10 |
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 Hamilton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2443078 | 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 1029289. 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.






