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.
Population over time
2 figuresHorace 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,430 | |
| 2020 | 3,085 | +655 (+27%) |
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 South West Fargo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS West Fargo South quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 2017Regional 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | I29 |
| 1 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE ALOND INTERSTATE |
| 8 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 170TH AVE SE & 124TH AVE. S |
| 5 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | INTERSTATE 29 / 54 MM FIRE |
| 25 November 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FIELD FIRE |
| 19 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 44TH STREET SE & 167TH AVE. SE |
| 15 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 100TH AVE SOUTH & 57TH STREET SOUTH |
| 1 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 8505 25TH STREET SOUTH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | Horace | $600,000 | This 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 1993 | Hail | Horace | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches broken down. Time estimated based on radar. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | An empty steel grain bin was dislocated from its mounting pad and tumbled downwind. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | Peak wind gust was measured at a personal weather station. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | A few large tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Horace | - | Satellite imagery showed widespread wind and hail damage to cropland across northern Normanna Township. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Horace | - | Dime to quarter sized hail covered a deck. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | A tin roof was damaged. |
| August 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Horace | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | A large tree was split in two from strong winds. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | Strong winds were reported at Horace. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | Many trees were damaged along the Wild Rice River. |
| September 2005 | Tornado (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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | Trees were uprooted and an antenna was blown off a house roof. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Horace | - | Numerous large trees and power poles were snapped off at ground level. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | Many large tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Horace | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Horace | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Benedict | 4.1 miles | 24 | |
| Frontier | 4.7 miles | 25 | |
| Wild Rice | 5.1 miles | 24 | |
| Prairie Rose | 5.4 miles | 25 | |
| Briarwood | 6.0 miles | 25 | |
| Warren | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Norman | 7.2 miles | 23 | |
| Oxbow | 7.7 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 Horace | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2188971 | 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 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.







