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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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
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard-Lakotalisted 2017
Tofthagen Library Museumlisted 1991
Population over time
2 figuresLakota 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 672 | |
| 2020 | 683 | +11 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Lakota quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2017Regional 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 use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-12 |
| 1 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-10 |
| 30 March 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-2 |
| 20 October 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-18 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
55 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Lakota | $100,000 | A 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 2011 | Flash Flood | Lakota | $2,000 | Several sections of county and farm access roads across southern Illinois and Dodds townships were made impassable due to water flowing over the roads. |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | $1,000 | Large branches were blown down and a grain elevator was damaged. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | $1,000 | Tree damage was also reported in Lakota. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Lakota | $500 | A 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | $500 | Tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | $200 | Tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | Several large, 4 to 8 inch tree branches were broken down, and large spruce trees were snapped. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | Law enforcement reports large trees are down across the area. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | Several large, 3 to 5 inch, tree branches were broken throughout town. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | Trees were blown down and there was a lot of roof damage due to falling trees. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | Campers and travel trailers were flipped over at the Northern View Campground on the north side of Stump Lake. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Lakota | - | Some crop damage was reported. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | Several four to eight inch diameter tree branches were broken down around Lakota. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lakota | - | Numerous dime to quarter sized hail nearly covered the ground. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Lakota | - | The observer also measured 3.30 inches of rain during the storm. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | A flag pole and tree branches were blown down. The thunderstorms also dropped 1.50 inches of rain. |
| July 2007 | Flood | Lakota | - | 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 2006 | Heavy Rain | Lakota | - | 3.25 inches of rain fell in 20 minutes. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lakota | - | A large tree was uprooted. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Lakota | - | Roads were flooded around Lakota. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Lakota | - | Water was reported over highway 1. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| November 2006 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| October 2006 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| December 2006 | Flood | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Lakota | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Lakota | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mapes | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Wamduska (historical) | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Pelto | 9.8 miles | 7 | |
| Harrisburg (historical) | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Michigan | 11.7 miles | 7 | |
| Whitman | 14.0 miles | 7 | |
| Tolna | 15.9 miles | 11 | |
| Pekin | 17.4 miles | 11 |
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 Lakota | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q663390 | 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 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.




