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Lidgerwood, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Lidgerwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 58053. The Survey maps it on the Lidgerwood quadrangle. 600 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Lidgerwood within Richland County

On record in Lidgerwood

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

Lidgerwood fell from 652 to 600 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
2010652
2020600-52 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lidgerwood between 2004 and 2016, burning about 6 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
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceAIRPORT FIRE
12 August 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeNOVETZKE
15 May 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWETTSTEIN
22 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePODLISKA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lidgerwood in 50 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 30 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$50,000Strong winds uprooted trees 30 inches in diameter and 40 feet tall. The winds also flattened garages, and demolished barns and sheds.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$30,000A 108x50 foot storage shed was picked up by the wind and thrown into a grove of trees. Some debris was thrown 1000 feet away.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$20,000A large tree was blown onto a house. Other trees were uprooted.
June 2008HailLidgerwood$10,000The hail occurred for a few minutes from 10:57 AM to 11:00 AM CDT.
August 2011Flash FloodLidgerwood$5,000Heavy rain quickly filled ditches and covered several rural roads.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$5,000Shingles were torn from a roof.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood$500Trees were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-CO-OP Observer reports 8 to 10 inch tree branches down in Lidgerwood.
August 2023HailLidgerwood-Public reports golf ball-sized hail 5 SSW of Lidgerwood.
July 2022HailLidgerwood-Received a report of nickel to quarter size hail, smaller at first then a few larger ones. A supercell thunderstorm with a well-developed wall cloud tracked through central and eastern Dexter Township, into central Liberty Grove Township. Episodes of smaller hail occurred across the area, with occasional larger hail.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-A trained storm spotter reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several trees were blown down in shelterbelts.
May 2019HailLidgerwood-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several large tree branches were blown down around Lidgerwood.
July 2013Heavy RainLidgerwood-The heavy rain cause minor street flooding in Lidgerwood.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several three to five inch diameter trees were snapped off.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-The tops of trees were taken off.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Numerous 4 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several large tree branches and a few large tree limbs were broken down around Lidgerwood. Peak winds were estimated at 60 to 70 mph across Grant and Moran townships.
August 2010Tornado (EF0)Lidgerwood-This tornado began in Sargent County at 834 pm CDTcdt, where it had an approximate 1 mile path. It continued in Richland County for about one additional mile, for a total path length of about 2 miles. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
May 2007FloodLidgerwood-Residents built a 2 foot high dike on the south edge of town to prevent an overflowing slough from spreading into town.
April 2006HailLidgerwood-The hail fell along the Richland and Sargent County line.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Several trees were blown down.
September 2005HailLidgerwood-Lightning and very heavy rain was reported along with some brief power outages.
September 2005Flash FloodLidgerwood-Roughly 3.5 inches of rain fell in a short amount of time, causing fields and farm yards to flood. One basement also flooded.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLidgerwood-Tree branches were blown down.
August 2019HailLidgerwood-no account filed
September 2014HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 2012HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2012HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 2009HailLidgerwood-no account filed
April 2006HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2006HailLidgerwood-no account filed
August 2006HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2005HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2005HailLidgerwood-no account filed
September 2005HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 2004HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2004HailLidgerwood-no account filed
July 2003HailLidgerwood-no account filed
April 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
July 2002HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 1999HailLidgerwood-no account filed
June 1997HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 1996HailLidgerwood-no account filed
May 1996HailLidgerwood-no account filed
July 1994HailLidgerwood-no account filed
August 1994HailLidgerwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Stiles5.3 miles9
Mantador11.1 miles10
Moselle11.4 miles9
Wyndmere13.2 miles10
Hankinson13.3 miles10
Bayne13.5 miles10
Barney15.5 miles9
Great Bend19.3 miles10

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 LidgerwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443095The 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 1029882. 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.