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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.

New Leipzig within Grant County

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 figures

New 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.

YearPeople Change
2010221
2020218-3 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2005

Regional 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 use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Smoking1
Debris and open burning1

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
11 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSCHATZ
5 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKILZER
9 July 2017Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWUTZKE
23 July 2005Natural10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCHESTERDIETZ
16 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKOEPPLIN
18 April 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSHEEP CREEK 1
22 November 2017Arson/incendiarism30 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceERLING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

41 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010HailNew Leipzig$1,000,000This 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 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$500,000Large 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 2011Tornado (EF2)New Leipzig$200,000A 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 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$65,000Newspaper reports New Leipzig sustained damage from storm. Several large trees uprooted along with some damage to homes.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$60,000Straight 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 2017HailNew Leipzig$50,000Several law enforcement vehicles were damaged by the large hail.
June 2011Flash FloodNew Leipzig$50,000Very heavy rainfall contributed to flash flooding in and around New Leipzig. Streets quickly became flooded, and sewage backup was reported in basements.
July 2015HailNew Leipzig$50,000no account filed
August 2017HailNew Leipzig$20,000There was damage to vehicles and roofs.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig$8,000A two foot in diameter tree was blown down and there was roof damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2013Heavy RainNew Leipzig-Heavy rain of two inches fell in one hour.
May 2010Tornado (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 2010HailNew 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 1995Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-Wind speed unknown. Two large grain bins knocked over and destroyed.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2025HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2025HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2025HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2022HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2019HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
May 2018HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2016HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2016HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2016HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
June 2013HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
May 2012HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
August 2011HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2009HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2007HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2006HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
September 2005HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Leipzig-no account filed
July 2000HailNew Leipzig-no account filed
August 1998HailNew Leipzig-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Elgin5.3 miles5
Heil12.7 miles5
Wollman Ranch Colony15.0 miles7
Leith16.1 miles5
Johnson Ford17.2 miles7
Carson20.1 miles5
Brisbane23.9 miles5
Lark29.3 miles5

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 LeipzigAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q252459The 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.