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Palermo, North Dakota

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Palermo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58769. The Survey maps it on the Palermo quadrangle. 125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,208 feet above sea level.

Palermo within Mountrail County

Population over time

2 figures

Palermo grew from 74 to 125 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
201074
2020125+51 (+69%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Palermo between 2005 and 2019, burning about 59 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePALERMO SATURDAY FIRE
6 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM 100
4 May 2005Equipment and vehicle use50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
29 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHOWELL FIRE
15 April 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
20 October 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMEIERS RANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail County

Storms near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palermo in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 10 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindPalermo$25,000The strong winds blew down a pole barn.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPalermo-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by emergency management.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Palermo-A tornado touched down in a rural area south of Palermo and traveled nearly one mile. No damage, injuries, or fatalities were reported. No structures were impacted and so the tornado was rated EF-0.
July 2024HailPalermo-no account filed
August 2019HailPalermo-no account filed
June 2016HailPalermo-no account filed
June 2016HailPalermo-no account filed
June 2015Funnel CloudPalermo-no account filed
June 2010HailPalermo-no account filed
July 2010HailPalermo-no account filed
May 2007HailPalermo-no account filed
June 2004HailPalermo-no account filed
September 2004HailPalermo-no account filed
July 2001HailPalermo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mountrail 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
Blaisdell8.1 miles4
Stanley8.7 miles5
Wassaic9.1 miles4
Lostwood14.0 miles4
Belden14.7 miles4
Epworth15.4 miles4
Tagus15.6 miles6
Ross16.9 miles4

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 PalermoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q979667The 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 1030621. 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.