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Logan Center, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Logan Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58267. The Survey maps it on the Logan Center quadrangle.

Logan Center within Grand Forks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Logan Center in 2019, burning about 1 acre 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/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
30 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-32

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks County

Storms near this place

32 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Logan Center in 32 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 tornado, 3 funnel cloud. 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 2020Tornado (EF1)Logan Center$25,000This tornado began 4 miles north of Sharon, in Steele County, at 430 pm CDT. The tornado tracked for about 2 miles in Steele County, before it crossed into Grand Forks County, where the path continued for another 5 miles. The tornado blew out the back wall of a pole shed and also tore off some of its steel sheathing. It snapped or uprooted several cottonwood and pine trees in shelterbelts along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Measured gust on Logan Center NDAWN 10m sensor.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Measured wind gust on surface sensor at Logan Center NDAWN.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Measured gust at the Logan Center NDAWN 33ft sensor.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Peak wind gust at 10 meters from the Logan Center NDAWN.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Heavy crop damage to corn from strong winds and possibly hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Several large 4 to 6 inch tree branches broken at a homestead. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station at the 10 meter height. Multiple win gusts over 60 mph occurred from 1222 through 1226 AM CDT.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Peak wind was measured at a personal weather station. Numerous trees were snapped or blown down across Larimore and Grace Townships, including within the community of Larimore.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Peak wind gust measured via NDAWN at 10 meters.
August 2021Funnel CloudLogan Center-A well-developed wall cloud and a funnel cloud were reported by a storm chaser and trained spotter.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Peak wind measured by an NDAWN station at the 10-meter height.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-A 12-inch diameter cottonwood branch was reported snapped. Pea-sized hail was also reported. Report received via social media, time estimated from radar.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
June 2020Funnel CloudLogan Center-This funnel cloud was viewed by a spotter west of Hatton.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-The wind gust was measured by a home weather station.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Large trees were blown down or uprooted in shelterbelts.
June 2015HailLogan Center-The hail was still unmelted 45 minutes after it fell.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Logan Center-The tornado was viewed in open country south of highway 15 moving east.
August 2007Tornado (EF3)Logan Center-This tornado began about 6 miles north-northeast of Aneta in eastern Nelson County at 704 pm CST. The total tornado track was about 6 miles, with about 1 mile of it occurring in Grand Forks County. The tornado lofted and destroyed a second combine in Grand Forks County before it lifted. Peak winds were estimated at 150 mph.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-A 90 foot tall radio tower was blown over onto a house. Many trees and an empty barn were blown down.
September 2005HailLogan Center-Hail covered the ground.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-Large trees were uprooted.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
June 2018HailLogan Center-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLogan Center-no account filed
July 2014Funnel CloudLogan Center-no account filed
July 2007HailLogan Center-no account filed
September 2005HailLogan Center-no account filed
July 2005HailLogan Center-no account filed
July 2003HailLogan Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Forks 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
Kempton10.9 miles11
Shawnee11.1 miles10
Hannah Junction11.7 miles11
Larimore12.4 miles11
Niagara13.6 miles10
Northwood14.2 miles8
McCanna15.1 miles8
Arvilla18.9 miles15

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 Logan CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122598189The 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 1029959. 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.