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.
Population over time
2 figuresNiagara 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 53 | |
| 2020 | 46 | -7 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1939 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Niagara quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 17 |
| 4 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 11 |
| 19 April 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | not named |
| 11 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 11 |
| 1 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 47 |
Storms near this place
22 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niagara | $500 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Niagara | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail fell. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niagara | - | Strong winds, torrential rain, and marble sized hail were reported. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niagara | - | A semi was blown off of U. S. Highway 2. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niagara | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Niagara | - | A wall cloud was observed moving into Grand Forks County. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Niagara | - | Very strong winds and rain were reported with a few large tree branches torn down around town. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Niagara | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Niagara | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawnee | 6.9 miles | 10 | |
| McCanna | 8.5 miles | 8 | |
| Hannah Junction | 11.8 miles | 11 | |
| Orr | 12.3 miles | 8 | |
| Logan Center | 13.6 miles | 10 | |
| Larimore | 14.3 miles | 11 | |
| Forest River Colony | 15.6 miles | 8 | |
| Inkster | 16.1 miles | 8 |
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 Niagara | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1833712 | 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 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.





