Hurdsfield, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Hurdsfield City. It lies in ZIP code area 58451. The Survey maps it on the Hurdsfield quadrangle. 64 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,913 feet above sea level.
On record in Hurdsfield
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Hurd Round Houselisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresHurdsfield fell from 84 to 64 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 | 84 | |
| 2020 | 64 | -20 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Hurdsfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Carrington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hurdsfield between 2016 and 2018, burning about 32 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LAKE GEORGE 1 |
| 17 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HIGHWAY 200 DITCH HURDSFIELD |
| 22 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HIGHWAY 3 RUBBLE FIRE |
| 21 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HIGHWAY 200-3 |
| 18 November 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HIGHWAY 3 |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hurdsfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halrorson Construction Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurdsfield in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Hurdsfield | $500,000 | Deep flood waters flowed over many roads and caused damage throughout much of southern Wells County, where up to seven inches of rain fell from thunderstorms. Multiple roads were washed out and so closed for days. Parts of State Highway 200 and U.S. Highway 52 were closed resulting in major traffic detours. A part of State Highway 200 near Bowdon was washed out. The heavy rain also caused crop damage and yield loss. Hay bales were partially submerged in flood water. Soil erosion was extensive. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hurdsfield | $20,000 | Strong winds associated with a severe thunderstorm blew over a semi trailer near Hurdsfield. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Hurdsfield | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Hurdsfield | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Hurdsfield | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Hurdsfield | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Hurdsfield | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flood | Hurdsfield | - | 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.
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 Hurdsfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2325188 | 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 1029579. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




