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Harwood, North Dakota

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Harwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 58042. It stands on Lower Branch Rush River. The Survey maps it on the West Fargo North quadrangle. 794 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Harwood within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Harwood grew from 718 to 794 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
2010718
2020794+76 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

27 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Harwood between 2015 and 2020, burning about 62 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRICHWOOD 1
21 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service16878 CAROLYN DR.
1 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceASPLIN FIRE
9 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service64TH AVE. N. & 25TH ST. N. FARGO
29 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI29 NEAR MILE MARKER 69
26 June 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service6823 CO ROAD 17 LINDEMAN
13 June 2015Fireworks1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service56 LIND @ I29
9 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service497

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harwood in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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
April 2023FloodHarwood$951,000Harwood - Sheyenne River - Crest of 90.33 ft occurred on 4/22. A second crest of 84.15 ft occurred on May 11th, and is noted in May storm data.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHarwood$50,000A house, in the process of having a new basement poured, was blown off the blocks it was stored on. The Harwood elevator sustained some damage and had several grain bins blown off their foundations and tossed about 100 yards. Trees were also downed around town.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindHarwood$25,000A business along Interstate 29 lost half its roof due to the wind. Plastic tanks they manufacture were blown as far as 3 miles to the east.
May 2023FloodHarwood-Harwood - Sheyenne River - Crest of 84.15 ft occurred on 5/11, with an initial crest of 90.33 ft occurring on 4/22.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHarwood-Extremely low visibility from blowing corn debris was reported near the intersection of county roads 17 and 22.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHarwood-A pickup truck and trailer were blown over, which blocked the northbound lane of Interstate 29. A semi truck and trailer were also blown over nearby.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindHarwood-Many 4 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
July 2017HailHarwood-Heavy rain accompanied the large hail, which was very soft.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHarwood-A semi truck and trailer were blown over along Interstate 29 near mile post 76.
May 2011Funnel CloudHarwood-A funnel cloud was spotted two miles east of Harwood.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHarwood-A semi truck was flipped along Interstate 29 at Harwood.
August 2020HailHarwood-no account filed
July 2018HailHarwood-no account filed
September 2008HailHarwood-no account filed
July 2004HailHarwood-no account filed
July 2004HailHarwood-no account filed
July 2004HailHarwood-no account filed
June 1999HailHarwood-no account filed
June 1994HailHarwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Brooktree Park1.8 miles9
Reiles Acres4.0 miles25
Pinkham4.3 miles24
North River4.6 miles25
Argusville5.8 miles9
Riverside6.5 miles24
West Fargo7.3 miles24
South West Fargo7.4 miles24

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 HarwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447063The 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 1029332. 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.