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Luverne, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Luverne City. It lies in ZIP code area 58056. The Survey maps it on the Luverne quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,417 feet above sea level.

Luverne within Steele County

Population over time

2 figures

Luverne fell from 31 to 28 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
201031
202028-3 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Luverne in 2017, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
8 May 2017Natural8.0 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictGOOSE LAKE/FUGELSTAD WPA

Every fire recorded in Steele County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luverne in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
September 2019Flash FloodLuverne$250,000Streets, low spots, rivers, and basements were flooded by 4 to 9 inches of rain over a short duration of time. Cars that got stuck in the flood waters were abandoned where they stalled. Farm fields and access roads were also flooded.
June 2008HailLuverne$20,000Several sections of cropland received damage in northern Riverside township.
July 2025HailLuverne-Received a public report of hail up to the size of half dollars.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLuverne-Trained spotter reported a 111 mph wind gust 1 mile east of Luverne. Measurement verified via personal weather station.
May 2024HailLuverne-One inch hail reported 2 miles north of Luverne, ND.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindLuverne-Uprooted trees. Large 8-inch tree branches on the road. Seven large trees down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindLuverne-Wind gust of 83 mph was measured at a personal weather station.
August 2021Funnel CloudLuverne-A persistent wall cloud was reported, along with a brief funnel.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLuverne-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindLuverne-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLuverne-A few 8 to 10 inch diameter ash trees were snapped at varying levels, from ground level to about 8 feet up.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLuverne-Several large trees were blown down.
August 2011Funnel CloudLuverne-The funnel was observed just south of Luverne.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindLuverne-Widespread downburst wind damage was noted across southwest Steele County and into adjacent portions of southeast Griggs County and northeast Barnes County. Significant crop and tree damage occurred across the southern half of Willow Lake Township which indicated peak wind speeds of from 90 to 100 mph.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindLuverne-Five trees in one yard were blown over, one tree hit the house and two cars. Power was also knocked out and other trees were damaged.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Luverne-Several trees were blown over.
June 2000HailLuverne-A 3 mile wide swath of hail fell from north of Luverne to the small town. 6,000 acres were affected, with hail up to 6 inches deep in spots.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLuverne-no account filed
May 2019HailLuverne-no account filed
July 2016HailLuverne-no account filed
May 2007HailLuverne-no account filed
May 2007HailLuverne-no account filed
September 2005HailLuverne-no account filed
June 2004HailLuverne-no account filed
August 2004HailLuverne-no account filed
June 2002HailLuverne-no account filed
July 2002HailLuverne-no account filed
August 2001HailLuverne-no account filed
August 1994HailLuverne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steele 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
Hope12.3 miles8
Blabon12.9 miles8
Pickert14.6 miles8
Colgate14.8 miles8
Sherbrooke18.4 miles8
Finley18.9 miles8
Sharon24.0 miles8
Interlaken (historical)27.7 miles8

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 LuverneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1900935The 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 1030048. 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.