New Leipzig, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in New Leipzig City. It lies in ZIP code area 58562. The Survey maps it on the New Leipzig North quadrangle. 218 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,346 feet above sea level.
On record in New Leipzig
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 figuresNew Leipzig fell from 221 to 218 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 | 221 | |
| 2020 | 218 | -3 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS New Leipzig North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of New Leipzig between 2005 and 2018, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SCHATZ |
| 5 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KILZER |
| 9 July 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WUTZKE |
| 23 July 2005 | Natural | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CHESTERDIETZ |
| 16 June 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KOEPPLIN |
| 18 April 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SHEEP CREEK 1 |
| 22 November 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ERLING |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
41 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Leipzig in 41 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 26 hail, 11 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Hail | New Leipzig | $1,000,000 | This was the second wave of very large hail to hit New Leipzig during this episode. Homes throughout the city experienced broken windows, damaged siding, and damaged shingles. Vehicles sustained heavy damaged as well. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | $500,000 | Large trees were blown down in the city of Carson. Structural damage also occurred to many local buildings in the city of Carson and surrounding farmsteads. |
| June 2011 | Tornado (EF2) | New Leipzig | $200,000 | A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed that an EF2 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale touched down eight miles south-southwest of Elgin, then moved northeast before lifting 3 miles south-southeast of Elgin. No fewer than four farmsteads were damaged along the path of the tornado. The worst damage occurred six miles south-southwest of Elgin, where the tornado was nearly one half of a mile wide, damaging every building on a farmstead and completely destroying the smaller buildings. Damage also occurred to trees, vehicles, and power poles. The damage surveyed corresponded to EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. From that it was determined that wind speeds were on the order of around 120 miles per hour.||Farther north-northeast, three other farmsteads sustained tornado damage. Damage on the first two farmsteads north-northeast of the worst damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado. The farthest north farmstead had damage consistent with an EF0 tornado. ||There were no injuries or fatalities with this tornado. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | $65,000 | Newspaper reports New Leipzig sustained damage from storm. Several large trees uprooted along with some damage to homes. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | $60,000 | Straight line winds associated with a severe thunderstorm destroyed two outbuildings on a farm. The wind speed was estimated based on the damaged observed during a storm survey. |
| August 2017 | Hail | New Leipzig | $50,000 | Several law enforcement vehicles were damaged by the large hail. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | New Leipzig | $50,000 | Very heavy rainfall contributed to flash flooding in and around New Leipzig. Streets quickly became flooded, and sewage backup was reported in basements. |
| July 2015 | Hail | New Leipzig | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | New Leipzig | $20,000 | There was damage to vehicles and roofs. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | $8,000 | A two foot in diameter tree was blown down and there was roof damage. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | - | A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | New Leipzig | - | Heavy rain of two inches fell in one hour. |
| May 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | New Leipzig | - | This tornado crossed into southwest Grant County from western Sioux County. See the tornado entry for Sioux County. The tornado hit no structures in Grant County, but did do damage in Sioux County. It was rated low end EF1 with estimated winds of 90 mph. |
| July 2010 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | Specific damage estimates from the large hail were not available. This was the first wave of large hail for New Leipzig during this episode. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | - | Wind speed unknown. Two large grain bins knocked over and destroyed. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | New Leipzig | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elgin | 5.3 miles | 5 | |
| Heil | 12.7 miles | 5 | |
| Wollman Ranch Colony | 15.0 miles | 7 | |
| Leith | 16.1 miles | 5 | |
| Johnson Ford | 17.2 miles | 7 | |
| Carson | 20.1 miles | 5 | |
| Brisbane | 23.9 miles | 5 | |
| Lark | 29.3 miles | 5 |
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 New Leipzig | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q252459 | 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 1030394. 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.




