Heil, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Elm Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58533. The Survey maps it on the Heil quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,316 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHeil grew from 15 to 15 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 | 15 | |
| 2020 | 15 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Heil quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
11 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Heil between 2012 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HAAS |
| 27 August 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | OKKEN |
| 9 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ESLINGER |
| 15 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ROCK ULRICH |
| 5 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | LEITH DUMP GROUNDS |
| 3 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LEITH DUMP GROUNDS |
| 20 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DAVE ROLL |
| 5 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BACHMEIER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heil in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heil | - | The public reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heil | - | Law enforcement estimated strong thunderstorm wind gusts near Carson. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heil | - | The thunderstorm wind gust speed was estimated by the public. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heil | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heil | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Heil | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Heil | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heil | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Heil | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leith | 3.9 miles | 5 | |
| Carson | 7.5 miles | 5 | |
| Elgin | 7.8 miles | 5 | |
| Brisbane | 11.5 miles | 5 | |
| Wollman Ranch Colony | 11.7 miles | 7 | |
| New Leipzig | 12.7 miles | 5 | |
| Johnson Ford | 13.6 miles | 7 | |
| Lark | 16.7 miles | 5 |
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 Heil | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4137828 | 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 1029386. 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.



