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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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
Roxy Theatrelisted 1998- US Post Office-Langdonlisted 1989
Population over time
2 figuresLangdon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,878 | |
| 2020 | 1,909 | +31 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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
- 1967 USGS Langdon East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 2017Regional 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 burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CHEATLY GRASS FIRE |
| 7 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WELSH FIRE |
| 19 June 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 9 WEST OF LANGDON |
| 28 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ALBRECHT PROPERTY |
| 29 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 85 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | OLGA CEMETARY |
| 17 November 2019 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | POWER LAND |
| 7 October 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1 NORTH OF SCHROEDER FURNITURE |
| 25 October 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | STEVE KAKELA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
60 of 70 shownRegional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | 2 hurt, $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | $2,000,000 | Many 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 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Langdon | $100,000 | A 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 2000 | Lightning | Langdon | $50,000 | A fire, ignited by a lightning strike, destroyed a barn and its contents. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | $25,000 | A 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 1994 | Hail | Langdon | $20,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | $15,000 | Strong wind gusts flipped over 5 grain augers and dented two 4,000 bushel steel grain bins. |
| May 2007 | Lightning | Langdon | $5,000 | Lightning struck the steeple of a church in Langdon, causing some shingle and brick damage. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | $2,000 | A greenhouse was destroyed by the wind. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Langdon | $1,000 | Trained Spotter reports flash flooding, with storms that produced 3 inches of rain in a short period of time. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Langdon | - | Received a public report of dime to quarter-sized hail. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Langdon | - | Very heavy rain and strong winds occurred, along with hail up to the size of ping pong balls. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | The wind gust was measured by a 10 meter high NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Langdon | - | A couple rounds of hail came through, dropping quarter to half dollar sized hail. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Langdon | - | Enough hail fell to turn the deck white. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Tree branches were blown down and nickel sized hail was reported. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor east of town. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | A few large tree branches were blown down and at least one twelve inch diameter tree was snapped near the ground. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | A large tree was blown down in a farmyard. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Langdon | - | Pea to nickel sized hail fell with 1.10 inches of rain. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Langdon | - | Two funnel clouds were reported and photographed coming down the hill by Langdon. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Langdon | - | Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Many large cottonwood trees in a farm shelterbelt were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Several grain bins were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Flying debris was reported in a yard. Two trees were uprooted. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | An NDAWN mesonet sensor reported an 86 mph wind gust. A tree fell on a building and another large evergreen was blown down. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | 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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | 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 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Langdon | - | The tornado touched down in an open field north of Highway 5. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Langdon | - | The tornado touched down about 1 mile north of Highway 5. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Scattered power outages were reported. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | Some crop and tree damage was reported. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Langdon | - | 37,000 acres of wheat, canola, barley, and sunflowers were damaged by hail. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Langdon | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Langdon | - | 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 Langdon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1779807 | 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 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.



