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.
Population over time
2 figuresLudden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23 | |
| 2020 | 15 | -8 (-35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Oakes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1895 USGS Lamoure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Guelph quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2017Regional 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 use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DAVE LOCKEN |
| 13 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GALEN BRANDT FIRE |
| 23 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | JOHN ANDRUS |
| 21 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KAINE K |
| 31 March 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 212017 |
| 28 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CARLSONS REKINDLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludden | $50,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in numerous trees and branches blown down around Ludden. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludden | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludden | - | The strong winds blew down several tree branches. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Ludden | - | Tornado touched down in open country just north of the South Dakota border. Tornado lifted before crossing into South Dakota. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Ludden | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Ludden | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Ludden | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Ludden | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Ludden | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Emma (historical) | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Eaton (historical) | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Guelph | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Norway | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Hudson (historical) | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Oakes | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Clement | 11.9 miles | 13 | |
| Silverleaf | 13.5 miles | 13 |
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 Ludden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2217324 | 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 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.






