BlockKief, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Kief City. It lies in ZIP code area 58723. The Survey maps it on the Kief quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.
On record in Kief
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
Liberty Baptist Churchlisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresKief fell from 13 to 8 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 | 13 | |
| 2020 | 8 | -5 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1929 USGS Balfour quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Balfour quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Kief quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Drake quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
6 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kief in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kief | - | The public reported thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kief | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Kief | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kief | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kief | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Kief | - | 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 Kief | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q654218 | 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 1029735. 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.
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.