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Leonard, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Leonard City. It lies in ZIP code area 58052. The Survey maps it on the Leonard quadrangle. 248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,053 feet above sea level.

Leonard within Cass County

On record in Leonard

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Leonard grew from 223 to 248 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
2010223
2020248+25 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Leonard between 2012 and 2017, burning about 11 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/undetermined2

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
20 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRAILROAD AVE SOUTH
13 May 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWOODS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leonard in 32 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindLeonard$20,000The wind knocked down several five to seven inch diameter tree branches in the shelter belts.
July 1999Flash FloodLeonard$10,000Fields were flooded north of Leonard.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindLeonard$1,000A tree fell on a power line at a farmstead southeast of Leonard.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLeonard$1,000Trees were blown down.
June 2025HailLeonard-Report relayed from mping.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Storm chaser reported 90 mph winds, possibly associated with a nearby tornado.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Large Tree branches down, estimated gust of 60 mph.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindLeonard-A one to 1.5 mile swath of corn was shredded by wind driven hail. Several large branches were also blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLeonard-The winds gusted up to 60 mph.
August 2017HailLeonard-A few quarter sized hail fell near the intersection of highway 46 and county road 18. A shelf cloud was also observed, but the wind did not get very strong.
September 2014Tornado (EF1)Leonard-A tornado wrapped in downburst winds and heavy rain tracked intermittently for about eleven miles. Brick facing and roofing material were torn off a building in Leonard. Numerous large two foot diameter cottonwood and oak trees were blown over or snapped at farmsteads and shelterbelts along and north of highway 46. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph.
July 2011HailLeonard-Dime to quarter sized hail was reported along with brief heavy rain.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Trees were blown down in Leonard.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Peak gust measured at the NDAWN winds sensor near ND Highway 46. Numerous large tree limbs were blown down in shelter belts along Highway 46 and in farmsteads and communities near the highway.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Several large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down in a shelterbelt.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Leonard-A weak tornado touched down about one mile northwest of Enderlin (in Cass County) and tracked east-southeast into Ransom County. In Ransom County, the tornado continued to track for another mile, across the north edge of the city airport and the north side of Enderlin. The total track length was about 2 miles. No damage was reported in Cass County, but some roof and tree damage occurred in Ransom County.
June 2006Tornado (F0)Leonard-A deputy reported a tornado along the Cass and Ransom county line.
August 2006Tornado (F1)Leonard-This weak tornado tracked southeast for about a half mile and then crossed into Richland County, where it continued for another 2.5 miles. The tornado knocked down or uprooted several trees in shelterbelts along the track. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindLeonard-Large branches were blown down.
July 2020HailLeonard-no account filed
July 2018HailLeonard-no account filed
June 2014HailLeonard-no account filed
September 2007HailLeonard-no account filed
July 2007Funnel CloudLeonard-no account filed
August 2006HailLeonard-no account filed
July 2002HailLeonard-no account filed
July 2001HailLeonard-no account filed
July 2000HailLeonard-no account filed
July 1999HailLeonard-no account filed
July 1999HailLeonard-no account filed
September 1998HailLeonard-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindLeonard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Woods3.6 miles11
Lynchburg8.5 miles11
Chaffee10.2 miles11
Davenport10.2 miles11
Durbin12.0 miles11
Kindred12.1 miles11
Warren13.5 miles11
Embden14.4 miles11

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 LeonardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1842454The 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 1029864. 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.