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Horace, North Dakota

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Horace City. It lies in ZIP code area 58047. The Survey maps it on the West Fargo South quadrangle. 3,085 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Horace within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Horace grew from 2,430 to 3,085 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
20102,430
20203,085+655 (+27%)

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

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Horace between 2017 and 2020, burning about 7 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2

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
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI29
1 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE ALOND INTERSTATE
8 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service170TH AVE SE & 124TH AVE. S
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceINTERSTATE 29 / 54 MM FIRE
25 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFIELD FIRE
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service44TH STREET SE & 167TH AVE. SE
15 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service100TH AVE SOUTH & 57TH STREET SOUTH
1 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service8505 25TH STREET SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horace in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 16 hail, 16 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Tornado (EF2)Horace$600,000This tornado tracked northward for about four miles and lifted near the Woodhaven Park in southwest Fargo. The tornado was likely enshrouded in downburst winds and heavy rain as it knocked down several wooden power poles and two metal truss power towers along its path. Sections of roofing were torn off of two apartment buildings. Many residences had tree, vehicle and roof damage. Peak wind were estimated at 135 mph.
May 1993HailHorace$50,000no account filed
April 2022Thunderstorm WindHorace-Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches broken down. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHorace-Interstate 29 signs were bent and damaged. Storage trailers and grain augers were blown over. Metal roofing and sheathing was found scattered up to one quater mile downstream. Most damage and debris was between mp54 and mp56 on interstate 29. Time estimated based on radar.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHorace-An empty steel grain bin was dislocated from its mounting pad and tumbled downwind.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHorace-Peak wind gust was measured at a personal weather station.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHorace-A grain bin was rolled into the middle of the street 0.5 miles south of the intersection of 167th Ave and 43rd street SE. Delayed report.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindHorace-A few large tree branches were blown down.
August 2018HailHorace-Satellite imagery showed widespread wind and hail damage to cropland across northern Normanna Township.
July 2017HailHorace-Dime to quarter sized hail covered a deck.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHorace-A tin roof was damaged.
August 2014Funnel CloudHorace-This funnel was one of several brief and weak cold-air or cold-core type funnels which formed throughout the late morning and afternoon hours.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHorace-A large tree was split in two from strong winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHorace-Strong winds were reported at Horace.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHorace-Numerous tree branches were broken off and a large steel grain bin was dented inward. A mobile home parked parallel to the wind was lifted slightly and rocked violently.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHorace-Many trees were damaged along the Wild Rice River.
September 2005Tornado (F2)Horace-After strong winds and heavy rain hit a farmstead, a tornado followed closely behind. The tornado tracked intermittently along a 4 mile path. A 30 foot concrete silo was lifted and blown onto a machine shed. Concrete pieces spread in a 60 degree arc 40 to 50 feet from the foundation. One-half of the machine shed was demolished by silo debris. Numerous trees were also snapped off. A window was blown in and siding was ripped off the house. The peak wind speeds were estimated at 120 mph.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindHorace-Trees were uprooted and an antenna was blown off a house roof.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Horace-Numerous large trees and power poles were snapped off at ground level.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHorace-Many large tree branches were blown down.
July 2022HailHorace-no account filed
June 2018HailHorace-no account filed
July 2010HailHorace-no account filed
July 2010HailHorace-no account filed
September 2007HailHorace-no account filed
September 2007HailHorace-no account filed
June 2006HailHorace-no account filed
August 2006HailHorace-no account filed
July 2004HailHorace-no account filed
September 2002HailHorace-no account filed
June 2000HailHorace-no account filed
September 2000HailHorace-no account filed
July 1998HailHorace-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHorace-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindHorace-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindHorace-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
Saint Benedict4.1 miles24
Frontier4.7 miles25
Wild Rice5.1 miles24
Prairie Rose5.4 miles25
Briarwood6.0 miles25
Warren6.1 miles11
Norman7.2 miles23
Oxbow7.7 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 HoraceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2188971The 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 1029530. 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.