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Niagara, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Niagara City. It lies in ZIP code area 58266. The Survey maps it on the Niagara quadrangle. 46 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,457 feet above sea level.

Niagara within Grand Forks County

Population over time

2 figures

Niagara fell from 53 to 46 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
201053
202046-7 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Niagara between 1993 and 2016, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service17
4 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service11
19 April 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFort Totten Agencynot named
11 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service11
1 October 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service47

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Niagara in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1999Thunderstorm WindNiagara$500no account filed
July 2020HailNiagara-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNiagara-Strong winds, torrential rain, and marble sized hail were reported.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNiagara-A semi was blown off of U. S. Highway 2.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindNiagara-Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2016HailNiagara-A wall cloud was observed moving into Grand Forks County.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindNiagara-Very strong winds and rain were reported with a few large tree branches torn down around town.
July 2013HailNiagara-no account filed
August 2007HailNiagara-no account filed
August 2007HailNiagara-no account filed
July 2007HailNiagara-no account filed
August 2007HailNiagara-no account filed
June 2006HailNiagara-no account filed
June 2006HailNiagara-no account filed
May 2005HailNiagara-no account filed
July 2003HailNiagara-no account filed
July 2003HailNiagara-no account filed
July 2001HailNiagara-no account filed
August 2001HailNiagara-no account filed
June 2000HailNiagara-no account filed
July 2000HailNiagara-no account filed
July 1996HailNiagara-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Forks 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
Shawnee6.9 miles10
McCanna8.5 miles8
Hannah Junction11.8 miles11
Orr12.3 miles8
Logan Center13.6 miles10
Larimore14.3 miles11
Forest River Colony15.6 miles8
Inkster16.1 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 NiagaraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1833712The 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 1030403. 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.