Leal, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Edna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58479. The Survey maps it on the Leal quadrangle. 27 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLeal grew from 20 to 27 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 | 20 | |
| 2020 | 27 | +7 (+35%) |
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.
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Leal quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Leal in 2018, burning about 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | OLD ED KUHLMAN FARM |
Storms near this place
11 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leal in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leal | $200 | Large branches were blown down in Leal. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Leal | - | The hail was mostly nickel sized, but a few were up to 1.25 inches. |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Leal | - | The tornado touched down on the west edge of Leal and tracked intermittently to the northeast for about four miles. The tornado tore sections of roofing off a house and steel roofing off of a grain storage building. It destroyed one small shed and impaled wood panels into the side of a home. It later snapped trees and large branches in shelterbelts along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 108 mph. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leal | - | A few large tree branches were blown down across town. |
| June 2013 | Tornado (EF0) | Leal | - | A storm chaser observed a small rope tornado. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Leal | - | Quarter size hail fell along with some smaller hailstones. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Leal | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Leal | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Leal | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Leal | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Leal | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers | 6.6 miles | 8 | |
| Odell (historical) | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Dazey | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Wimbledon | 8.8 miles | 9 | |
| Eckelson | 11.6 miles | 10 | |
| Sanborn | 12.3 miles | 10 | |
| Urbana | 12.8 miles | 10 | |
| Nobart (historical) | 14.6 miles | 10 |
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 Leal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28442 | 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 1029852. 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.




