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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.

Hurdsfield within Wells County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hurdsfield 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.

YearPeople Change
201084
202064-20 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

5 since 2016

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
30 June 2016Debris and open burning10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLAKE GEORGE 1
17 May 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 200 DITCH HURDSFIELD
22 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 3 RUBBLE FIRE
21 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 200-3
18 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHIGHWAY 3

Every fire recorded in Wells County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Halrorson Construction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wells County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Flash FloodHurdsfield$500,000Deep 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 2010Thunderstorm WindHurdsfield$20,000Strong winds associated with a severe thunderstorm blew over a semi trailer near Hurdsfield.
July 2022HailHurdsfield-no account filed
July 2019Funnel CloudHurdsfield-no account filed
June 2017HailHurdsfield-no account filed
September 2014HailHurdsfield-no account filed
August 2005HailHurdsfield-no account filed
August 1999FloodHurdsfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wells 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
Chaseley5.7 miles7
Bowdon11.8 miles8
Manfred19.5 miles10
Heaton20.3 miles8
Fessenden21.1 miles10
Harvey22.2 miles10
Emrick24.3 miles10
Wellsburg27.9 miles10

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 HurdsfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2325188The 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.