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Leith, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Grant unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58529. The Survey maps it on the Leith quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,343 feet above sea level.

Leith within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Leith grew from 16 to 28 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
201016
202028+12 (+75%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

10 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Leith between 2012 and 2020, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHAAS
9 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceESLINGER
15 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceROCK ULRICH
5 June 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLEITH DUMP GROUNDS
3 June 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLEITH DUMP GROUNDS
20 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDAVE ROLL
5 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBACHMEIER
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSTOLLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leith in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018HailLeith$75,000Large hail occurred for an extended period in the community of Leith, causing damage to homes and vehicles.
June 2007FloodLeith$25,000In the area around Leith trained spotters reported minor flooding. Water was running over low spots in roads.
July 2010HailLeith-The large hail resulted in heavy damage to wheat and sunflower crops.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindLeith-70 MPH WIND
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLeith-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLeith-no account filed
July 2018HailLeith-no account filed
June 2018HailLeith-no account filed
June 2015HailLeith-no account filed
June 2011HailLeith-no account filed
August 2011HailLeith-no account filed
June 2008HailLeith-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Heil3.9 miles5
Carson5.6 miles5
Brisbane7.8 miles5
Elgin11.5 miles5
Lark14.3 miles5
Wollman Ranch Colony14.9 miles7
New Leipzig16.1 miles5
Johnson Ford16.6 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 LeithAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2146044The 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 1029862. 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.