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Lakota, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lakota Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58344. The Survey maps it on the Lakota quadrangle. 683 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,516 feet above sea level.

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Lakota within Nelson County

On record in Lakota

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lakota grew from 672 to 683 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
2010672
2020683+11 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lakota between 2017 and 2019, burning about 102 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
4 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-12
1 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-10
30 March 2019Smokingunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-2
20 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use100 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this place

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakota in 55 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 26 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 flood, 4 flash flood. 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
June 1999Tornado (F1)Lakota$100,000A barn, quonsets, and garages were destroyed by a tornado. Trees were uprooted and grain bins and a camper were destroyed. Power lines were also downed.
July 2011Flash FloodLakota$2,000Several sections of county and farm access roads across southern Illinois and Dodds townships were made impassable due to water flowing over the roads.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindLakota$1,000Large branches were blown down and a grain elevator was damaged.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindLakota$1,000Tree damage was also reported in Lakota.
June 2010Flash FloodLakota$500A rapid 2 to 3 inch downburst of rain produced street flooding in Lakota. Water spread a foot or more deep across several streets and stretched from sidewalk to sidewalk.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLakota$500Tree branches were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLakota$200Tree branches were blown down.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLakota-Several large, 4 to 8 inch tree branches were broken down, and large spruce trees were snapped.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLakota-Law enforcement reports large trees are down across the area.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLakota-Several large, 3 to 5 inch, tree branches were broken throughout town.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLakota-Trees were blown down and there was a lot of roof damage due to falling trees.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLakota-Large tree branches were blown down.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLakota-Campers and travel trailers were flipped over at the Northern View Campground on the north side of Stump Lake.
July 2015HailLakota-Some crop damage was reported.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLakota-Several four to eight inch diameter tree branches were broken down around Lakota.
May 2012HailLakota-Numerous dime to quarter sized hail nearly covered the ground.
August 2011HailLakota-The observer also measured 3.30 inches of rain during the storm.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLakota-A flag pole and tree branches were blown down. The thunderstorms also dropped 1.50 inches of rain.
July 2007FloodLakota-Stump Lake began the month at about 1447.28 feet MSL and ended the month at about 1447.42 feet MSL. The lake level did fluctuate over the course of the month due to several rain events, but the end rise was only about a tenth of a foot. Even so, the lake level was fast approaching the level of Devils Lake.
August 2006Heavy RainLakota-3.25 inches of rain fell in 20 minutes.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLakota-A large tree was uprooted.
June 2002Flash FloodLakota-Roads were flooded around Lakota.
July 2001Flash FloodLakota-Water was reported over highway 1.
August 2016HailLakota-no account filed
July 2016HailLakota-no account filed
September 2008HailLakota-no account filed
April 2007FloodLakota-no account filed
May 2007FloodLakota-no account filed
March 2007FloodLakota-no account filed
August 2007FloodLakota-no account filed
June 2007FloodLakota-no account filed
June 2006HailLakota-no account filed
August 2006HailLakota-no account filed
November 2006FloodLakota-no account filed
October 2006FloodLakota-no account filed
December 2006FloodLakota-no account filed
May 2005HailLakota-no account filed
June 2004HailLakota-no account filed
September 2004HailLakota-no account filed
July 2003HailLakota-no account filed
July 2003HailLakota-no account filed
July 2003HailLakota-no account filed
June 2002HailLakota-no account filed
June 2002HailLakota-no account filed
August 2002HailLakota-no account filed
August 2002HailLakota-no account filed
July 2001HailLakota-no account filed
June 2000HailLakota-no account filed
July 2000HailLakota-no account filed
July 2000HailLakota-no account filed
June 1999HailLakota-no account filed
July 1999HailLakota-no account filed
June 1997HailLakota-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F0)Lakota-no account filed
August 1995HailLakota-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Mapes5.8 miles8
Wamduska (historical)8.4 miles11
Pelto9.8 miles7
Harrisburg (historical)11.3 miles11
Michigan11.7 miles7
Whitman14.0 miles7
Tolna15.9 miles11
Pekin17.4 miles11

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 LakotaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q663390The 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 1029820. 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.