BlockLefor, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dickinson South unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58641. The Survey maps it on the Lefor quadrangle. It stands 2,592 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Lefor quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Lefor between 2017 and 2018, burning about 43 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KELLY HERBERHOLZ |
| 19 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LACY GUTENKUNST |
| 13 April 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-1 |
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lefor in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lefor | $30,000 | A shed was destroyed and trees were damaged. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Lefor | $10,000 | Hail combined with thunderstorm wind gusts to break some windows in the house and to break skylights on out-buildings. One coral wall was pushed over. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lefor | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts to 70 mph were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lefor | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lefor | - | Law enforcement estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lefor | - | This was a public report of very strong winds. Intermittent power outages were also reported. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Lefor | - | No damage was reported. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Lefor | - | Tornado touched down in residence yard. A corral partly down and roof torn off a shed. Several trees uprooted. Penny size hail accompanied the storm. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Lefor | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Lefor | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Lefor | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lefor | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lefor | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lefor | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Lefor | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Lefor | - | 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 Lefor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6516708 | 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 1029858. 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.