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Ludden, North Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ludden City. It lies in ZIP code area 58474. The Survey maps it on the Guelph quadrangle. 15 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.

Ludden within Dickey County

Population over time

2 figures

Ludden fell from 23 to 15 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
201023
202015-8 (-35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ludden between 2017 and 2020, burning about 17 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning1

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
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDAVE LOCKEN
13 August 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGALEN BRANDT FIRE
23 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceJOHN ANDRUS
21 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKAINE K
31 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service212017
28 November 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCARLSONS REKINDLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickey County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludden in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLudden$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in numerous trees and branches blown down around Ludden.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindLudden-Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindLudden-The strong winds blew down several tree branches.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Ludden-Tornado touched down in open country just north of the South Dakota border. Tornado lifted before crossing into South Dakota.
May 2022HailLudden-no account filed
June 2020Funnel CloudLudden-no account filed
September 2013HailLudden-no account filed
August 2001HailLudden-no account filed
May 1999HailLudden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickey 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
Port Emma (historical)1.7 miles13
Eaton (historical)4.1 miles13
Guelph5.9 miles13
Norway9.1 miles13
Hudson (historical)9.1 miles13
Oakes9.2 miles13
Clement11.9 miles13
Silverleaf13.5 miles13

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 LuddenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2217324The 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 1030039. 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.