Loraine, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1958. It stands in Hurley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58761. The Survey maps it on the Mohall quadrangle. 9 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,631 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLoraine grew from 9 to 9 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 | 9 | |
| 2020 | 9 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1948 USGS Mohall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Mohall quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Loraine between 2019 and 2020, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-1907 |
| 6 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loraine in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 11 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Loraine | - | A tornado touched down in a rural area west of Loraine and traveled about one-third mile. No damage, injuries, or fatalities were reported. Because the tornado impacted no structures it was rated EF-0. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Loraine | - | in open field. no damage. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Loraine | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loraine | - | 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 Loraine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q978284 | 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 1030017. 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.



