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Langdon, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Langdon City. It lies in ZIP code area 58249. The Survey maps it on the Langdon East quadrangle. 1,909 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.

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Langdon within Cavalier County

On record in Langdon

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

Langdon grew from 1,878 to 1,909 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
20101,878
20201,909+31 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

11 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Langdon between 2017 and 2019, burning about 2,526 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCHEATLY GRASS FIRE
7 June 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWELSH FIRE
19 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service9 WEST OF LANGDON
28 May 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceALBRECHT PROPERTY
29 April 2018Debris and open burning85 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceOLGA CEMETARY
17 November 2019Debris and open burning160 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePOWER LAND
7 October 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1 NORTH OF SCHROEDER FURNITURE
25 October 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSTEVE KAKELA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cavalier County

Storms near this place

60 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langdon in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 37 hail, 25 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindLangdon2 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLangdon$2,000,000Many 100 foot tall evergreen trees were uprooted. A pole barn was blown down and the roof was blown off a mobile home. Many other trees were snapped, with their trunks laying toward the northeast. The grain elevator sustained some minor damage.
June 2017Tornado (EF1)Langdon$100,000A weak tornado blew the doors off a seed company elevator and spread door and roof panels around the grounds in a circular pattern. Further downstream, the tornado snapped 6 power poles along 96th avenue northeast, a quarter mile east of highway 1. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph.
August 2000LightningLangdon$50,000A fire, ignited by a lightning strike, destroyed a barn and its contents.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLangdon$25,000A 58 mph wind gust was measured at an NDAWN site. The wind knocked down trees onto vehicles and powerlines. A fire started when a tree fell on a powerline near a house.
August 1994HailLangdon$20,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLangdon$15,000Strong wind gusts flipped over 5 grain augers and dented two 4,000 bushel steel grain bins.
May 2007LightningLangdon$5,000Lightning struck the steeple of a church in Langdon, causing some shingle and brick damage.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLangdon$2,000A greenhouse was destroyed by the wind.
September 2024Flash FloodLangdon$1,000Trained Spotter reports flash flooding, with storms that produced 3 inches of rain in a short period of time.
August 2021HailLangdon-Received a public report of dime to quarter-sized hail.
August 2021HailLangdon-Very heavy rain and strong winds occurred, along with hail up to the size of ping pong balls.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLangdon-The wind gust was measured by a 10 meter high NDAWN mesonet sensor.
July 2019HailLangdon-A couple rounds of hail came through, dropping quarter to half dollar sized hail.
July 2019HailLangdon-Enough hail fell to turn the deck white.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Tree branches were blown down and nickel sized hail was reported.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLangdon-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor east of town.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLangdon-A few large tree branches were blown down and at least one twelve inch diameter tree was snapped near the ground.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLangdon-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindLangdon-A large tree was blown down in a farmyard.
July 2009HailLangdon-Pea to nickel sized hail fell with 1.10 inches of rain.
June 2007Funnel CloudLangdon-Two funnel clouds were reported and photographed coming down the hill by Langdon.
August 2006HailLangdon-Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Many large cottonwood trees in a farm shelterbelt were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Several grain bins were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLangdon-A barn was blown down. Two grain bins were ripped from their foundations, with debris blown downwind for a quarter mile. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off. Shingles were torn from houses and basement windows were broken.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Flying debris was reported in a yard. Two trees were uprooted.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindLangdon-An NDAWN mesonet sensor reported an 86 mph wind gust. A tree fell on a building and another large evergreen was blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Estimated 90 to 110 mph downburst winds uprooted a large tree and damaged several others. Two tin cattle sheds had their roofs torn off. Pieces of these roofs were scattered in the nearby fields for over a mile.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLangdon-The 110 mph downburst winds continued from west to southwest of Langdon. A barn roof was lifted off and destroyed. This caused the barn loft to collapse, which killed several cows. A large section of the barn roof hit the nearby house, leaving a 3-foot gash in the porch side of the house. Nearby 4,000 bushel steel grain bins were either caved in or demolished.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Langdon-The tornado touched down in an open field north of Highway 5.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Langdon-The tornado touched down about 1 mile north of Highway 5.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Scattered power outages were reported.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindLangdon-Some crop and tree damage was reported.
July 1999HailLangdon-37,000 acres of wheat, canola, barley, and sunflowers were damaged by hail.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLangdon-no account filed
June 2007HailLangdon-no account filed
June 2006HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2006HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2006HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2006HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2006HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2006HailLangdon-no account filed
April 2005HailLangdon-no account filed
September 2005HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2004HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2004HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2004HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2003HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2003HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLangdon-no account filed
July 2003HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2003HailLangdon-no account filed
July 2003HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2002HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2002HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2002HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2002HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2001HailLangdon-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindLangdon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cavalier 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
Easby7.0 miles7
Dresden7.6 miles8
Mount Carmel12.1 miles7
Loma12.5 miles7
Nekoma12.6 miles7
Osnabrock13.1 miles7
Wales15.6 miles7
Vang16.4 miles7

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 LangdonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1779807The 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 1029827. 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.