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Max, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Central McLean unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58759. The Survey maps it on the Max quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,093 feet above sea level.

Max within McLean County

Population over time

2 figures

Max fell from 334 to 331 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
2010334
2020331-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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.

Storms near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Max in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 28 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMax$100,000Large hail accompanied the strong winds with damage to roofs and windows. Trees in Max were damaged.
June 2005Flash FloodMax$60,000no account filed
August 2011HailMax$10,000Windows were broken.
August 2010LightningMax$4,000Lightning struck a car resulting in the air bags being deployed and other damage. A person in the car suffered minor injuries. Time and placement of this event is based on a newspaper article and archived radar data. It is estimated.
May 1998HailMax$3,000Newspaper reported slight damage to house and a field of grain.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMax-Wind gusts estimated by a trained spotter.
August 2019Tornado (EF0)Max-A storm chaser reported this brief tornado. Other reports included very minor damage in the form of tree branches broken. The reports of minor damage led to the EF0 rating.
May 2014HailMax-There was no damage reported.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Max-Tornado hit no structures and did no damage as it remained over rangeland. The tornado completely lifted and then the parent thunderstorm produced a second tornado 35 minutes later in Ward County.
July 2003HailMax-Damage confined to a broken windshield.
June 2002HailMax-Highway Patrol reported visibility reduced to near zero in very heavy rain.
July 2001HailMax-Hail covered the ground.
August 2000HailMax-Law inforcement official reported hail was piled up like snow.
June 2025HailMax-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMax-no account filed
August 2022HailMax-no account filed
July 2020Funnel CloudMax-no account filed
August 2019HailMax-no account filed
July 2017HailMax-no account filed
June 2016HailMax-no account filed
May 2014HailMax-no account filed
June 2012HailMax-no account filed
July 2011HailMax-no account filed
June 2010HailMax-no account filed
July 2010HailMax-no account filed
August 2008HailMax-no account filed
March 2007HailMax-no account filed
August 2006HailMax-no account filed
August 2006HailMax-no account filed
June 2004HailMax-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMax-no account filed
June 2004HailMax-no account filed
August 2001HailMax-no account filed
June 2000HailMax-no account filed
June 2000HailMax-no account filed
June 2000HailMax-no account filed
June 1994HailMax-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Benedict11.5 miles9
Garrison13.2 miles8
Ruso19.4 miles9
Coleharbor19.5 miles9
Emmet22.3 miles6
Riverdale22.7 miles7
Riverdale Junction23.2 miles8
Underwood26.6 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 MaxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2446778The 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 1030122. 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.

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.