Noonan, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Noonan City. It lies in ZIP code area 58765. The Survey maps it on the Noonan quadrangle. 137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,972 feet above sea level.
On record in Noonan
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 2 records
Niels Nielsen Fourteen-Side Barn Farmlisted 1986
Travelers Hotellisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresNoonan grew from 121 to 137 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 | 121 | |
| 2020 | 137 | +16 (+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.
- 1947 USGS Noonan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Noonan quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Noonan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Noonan between 2017 and 2018, burning about 486 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | JOHN DHUYVETTER |
| 4 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 485 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COUNTY LINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noonan in 33 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2010 | Hail | Noonan | $30,000 | The large hail knocked holes in camper vents. The large hail also busted out the windows on a bus traveling near Noonan. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Noonan | $10,000 | Damage occurred to vehicles. |
| August 1994 | Hail | Noonan | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | Small tree branches were broken. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Noonan | - | A flowering canola field was damaged. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Noonan | - | This tornado briefly touched down in the open country of Divide County. There were no reports of damage associated with this tornado and it was rated EF0. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | Very heavy rain and frequent lightning accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Noonan | - | This funnel cloud was short lived and never reached the surface. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Noonan | - | The hail storm leveled 250 acres of crops, ripped down tree branches and heavily damaged farm vehicles. Rainfall measured at 2.6 inches following the hail storm. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Noonan | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Noonan | - | 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.
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 Noonan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1622802 | 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 1030422. 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.





