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McClusky, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in McClusky Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58463. The Survey maps it on the McClusky quadrangle. 322 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,923 feet above sea level.

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McClusky within Sheridan County

On record in McClusky

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

McClusky fell from 380 to 322 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
2010380
2020322-58 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of McClusky in 2005, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning1
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
16 September 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McClusky in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 27 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 funnel cloud, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 2007HailMcclusky1 hurtOne 60 year old female was injured by hail while outside. She heard the severe thunderstorm warning and went outside to secure property in anticipation of the storm. Golf ball size hail fell from a mostly sunny sky, hitting her in the head. She required 8 stiches to her forehead. The large hail was falling miles away from the storm core.
August 2019HailMcclusky$175,000Buildings were damaged by the large hail.
July 2016HailMcclusky$50,000no account filed
July 2016HailMcclusky$30,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMcclusky$25,000A camper was flipped onto its roof.
August 2019HailMcclusky$15,000no account filed
May 1994HailMcClusky$5,000no account filed
August 2019HailMcclusky$2,000Wind driven hail broke a window.
June 2024HailMcclusky-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Brief power outages were reported with the strong winds.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Very strong outflow winds from thunderstorms blew over hay bails.
June 2002HailMcclusky-Highway Patrol reported 50 mph winds with the storm.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Large tree limbs down. Minor flooding within the city.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Large trees down in the city.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Reports of numerous 3-inch branches broken off tree's on a farmstead.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Damage to shingles and large branches down.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-Numerous tree branches down.
August 1999HailMcclusky-Crop loss of 60 to 100 percent covering 2 to 3 miles wide.
July 1998HailMcclusky-Damage occurred to sunflower crop.
June 2022HailMcclusky-no account filed
June 2022HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2020HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2019HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2016HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2016Funnel CloudMcclusky-no account filed
June 2010HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2009Funnel CloudMcclusky-no account filed
May 2007HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2006HailMcclusky-no account filed
May 2005Funnel CloudMcclusky-no account filed
July 2005HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-no account filed
July 2003HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMcclusky-no account filed
August 2002HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2002HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 2001HailMcclusky-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Mcclusky-no account filed
June 1999HailMcclusky-no account filed
August 1999FloodMcclusky-no account filed
May 1998HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 1996Tornado (F1)Mcclusky-no account filed
July 1996HailMcclusky-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMcClusky-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Pickardville7.3 miles7
Denhoff9.8 miles6
Lincoln Valley12.8 miles8
Goodrich16.8 miles6
Martin29.2 miles10

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 McCluskyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q544128The 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 1030134. 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.