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Maddock, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Maddock City. It lies in ZIP code area 58348. The Survey maps it on the Maddock quadrangle. 402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,581 feet above sea level.

Maddock within Benson County

On record in Maddock

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Maddock grew from 382 to 402 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
2010382
2020402+20 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Maddock between 2006 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFOSS FIRE #2
5 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use35 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFOSS FIRE
23 July 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceELLINGSON FIRE REKINDLE
20 July 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceELLINGSON FIRE
3 April 2006Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFort Totten Agency002
28 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBACKSTROM FIRE
29 November 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePAULSON DITCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benson County

Storms near this place

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maddock in 44 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 25 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. 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
August 2001Tornado (F2)Maddock$300,000A grain elevator was heavily damaged and will likely be shut down for the rest of the year. Many trees were uprooted and a camper was overturned. 1.5 miles of powerline was blown down with 24 poles snapped.
September 2019Flash FloodMaddock$250,000Over 2 inches of rain fell in less than an hour, flooding streets and intersections.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMaddock$50,000The trained spotter reported a lot of dust on the leading edge of the storm and a prominent shelf cloud.
June 2008HailMaddock$50,000The hail was reported by a North Dakota ARB observer. Several sections of cropland received damage across Hesper and North Viking townships.
August 2001Tornado (F2)Maddock$50,000The tornado began northwest of Maddock and travelled along a path intermittently to near Flora and near Oberon. A 40x60 foot metal shed was demolished. About 2 miles northeast of Maddock, a grain bin was pulled from its foundation and thrown about 500 yards. A hopper bin and concrete pad were also turned on end at this location. Many large trees were flattened all along the path until the tornado weakened from Flora to near Oberon.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMaddock$1,000Trees were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMaddock$500Branches were blown down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMaddock$500Branches were blown down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMaddock$500Tree branches were blown off in the Maddock area.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMaddock$500Tree branches were blown down.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindMaddock-A large tree branch was blown down.
June 2008HailMaddock-The hail remained on the ground for about one and a half hours. Several sections of crop land recieved damage in Arne Township.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Maddock-A persistent funnel produced a brief touchdown in an open field.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMaddock-A 9 inch diameter apple tree was blown over.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMaddock-Several trees were blown down.
June 2005Flash FloodMaddock-Heavy rainfall inundated several roads. Raw sewage had to be pumped into ditches to prevent backup in homes.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMaddock-Several shingles were torn off a roof and several trees were blown down.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Maddock-Several brief touchdowns occurred in an open field.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMaddock-Three inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2002HailMaddock-The ground was white with hail.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMaddock-Tree branches were blown down.
July 1997HailMaddock-The ground was white with hail.
June 2008HailMaddock-no account filed
April 2006HailMaddock-no account filed
June 2004HailMaddock-no account filed
July 2004HailMaddock-no account filed
May 2003HailMaddock-no account filed
July 2003HailMaddock-no account filed
June 2002HailMaddock-no account filed
August 2002HailMaddock-no account filed
July 2002HailMaddock-no account filed
August 2001HailMaddock-no account filed
August 2001HailMaddock-no account filed
August 2000HailMaddock-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMaddock-no account filed
May 1999HailMaddock-no account filed
June 1999HailMaddock-no account filed
July 1999HailMaddock-no account filed
July 1999HailMaddock-no account filed
May 1998HailMaddock-no account filed
May 1998HailMaddock-no account filed
July 1998HailMaddock-no account filed
July 1997HailMaddock-no account filed
July 1996HailMaddock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benson 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
Hesper5.5 miles9
Flora6.0 miles11
Isabel9.6 miles6
Josephine11.6 miles10
Esmond13.3 miles6
Harlow13.9 miles6
Comstock14.9 miles7
Baker15.0 miles6

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 MaddockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2051910The 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 1035606. 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.