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.
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
- St. Alban's Episcopal Churchlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresLidgerwood 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 652 | |
| 2020 | 600 | -52 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Lidgerwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2004Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | AIRPORT FIRE |
| 12 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge | NOVETZKE |
| 15 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WETTSTEIN |
| 22 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PODLISKA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
50 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | $50,000 | Strong winds uprooted trees 30 inches in diameter and 40 feet tall. The winds also flattened garages, and demolished barns and sheds. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | $30,000 | A 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | $20,000 | A large tree was blown onto a house. Other trees were uprooted. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lidgerwood | $10,000 | The hail occurred for a few minutes from 10:57 AM to 11:00 AM CDT. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | Lidgerwood | $5,000 | Heavy rain quickly filled ditches and covered several rural roads. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | $5,000 | Shingles were torn from a roof. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | $500 | Trees were blown down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | CO-OP Observer reports 8 to 10 inch tree branches down in Lidgerwood. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | Public reports golf ball-sized hail 5 SSW of Lidgerwood. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | A trained storm spotter reported an estimated 70 mph wind gust. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | Several trees were blown down in shelterbelts. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail fell. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | Several large tree branches were blown down around Lidgerwood. |
| July 2013 | Heavy Rain | Lidgerwood | - | The heavy rain cause minor street flooding in Lidgerwood. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | Several three to five inch diameter trees were snapped off. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | The tops of trees were taken off. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | Numerous 4 inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | 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 2010 | Tornado (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 2007 | Flood | Lidgerwood | - | Residents built a 2 foot high dike on the south edge of town to prevent an overflowing slough from spreading into town. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | The hail fell along the Richland and Sargent County line. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | Lightning and very heavy rain was reported along with some brief power outages. |
| September 2005 | Flash Flood | Lidgerwood | - | 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lidgerwood | - | Tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Lidgerwood | - | 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 Lidgerwood | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2443095 | 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 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.





