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.
Population over time
2 figuresHarwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 718 | |
| 2020 | 794 | +76 (+11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 24 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.
- 1895 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1897 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 12 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS West Fargo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS West Fargo North quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
27 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RICHWOOD 1 |
| 21 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 16878 CAROLYN DR. |
| 1 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ASPLIN FIRE |
| 9 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 64TH AVE. N. & 25TH ST. N. FARGO |
| 29 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | I29 NEAR MILE MARKER 69 |
| 26 June 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 6823 CO ROAD 17 LINDEMAN |
| 13 June 2015 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 56 LIND @ I29 |
| 9 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 497 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Harwood | $951,000 | Harwood - 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harwood | $50,000 | A 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harwood | $25,000 | A 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 2023 | Flood | Harwood | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harwood | - | Extremely low visibility from blowing corn debris was reported near the intersection of county roads 17 and 22. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harwood | - | 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harwood | - | Many 4 inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Harwood | - | Heavy rain accompanied the large hail, which was very soft. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harwood | - | A semi truck and trailer were blown over along Interstate 29 near mile post 76. |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Harwood | - | A funnel cloud was spotted two miles east of Harwood. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harwood | - | A semi truck was flipped along Interstate 29 at Harwood. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Harwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Harwood | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Harwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Harwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Harwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Harwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Harwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Harwood | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooktree Park | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Reiles Acres | 4.0 miles | 25 | |
| Pinkham | 4.3 miles | 24 | |
| North River | 4.6 miles | 25 | |
| Argusville | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Riverside | 6.5 miles | 24 | |
| West Fargo | 7.3 miles | 24 | |
| South West Fargo | 7.4 miles | 24 |
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 Harwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2447063 | 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 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.







