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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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
Sheridan County Courthouselisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresMcClusky 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 380 | |
| 2020 | 322 | -58 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 26 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
44 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Hail | Mcclusky | 1 hurt | One 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 2019 | Hail | Mcclusky | $175,000 | Buildings were damaged by the large hail. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Mcclusky | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Mcclusky | $30,000 | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | $25,000 | A camper was flipped onto its roof. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Mcclusky | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | McClusky | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Mcclusky | $2,000 | Wind driven hail broke a window. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | Brief power outages were reported with the strong winds. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | Very strong outflow winds from thunderstorms blew over hay bails. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | Highway Patrol reported 50 mph winds with the storm. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | Large tree limbs down. Minor flooding within the city. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | Large trees down in the city. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | Reports of numerous 3-inch branches broken off tree's on a farmstead. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | Damage to shingles and large branches down. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | Numerous tree branches down. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | Crop loss of 60 to 100 percent covering 2 to 3 miles wide. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | Damage occurred to sunflower crop. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flood | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Mcclusky | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | McClusky | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pickardville | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Denhoff | 9.8 miles | 6 | |
| Lincoln Valley | 12.8 miles | 8 | |
| Goodrich | 16.8 miles | 6 | |
| Martin | 29.2 miles | 10 |
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 McClusky | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q544128 | 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 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.



