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Perth, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Perth City. It lies in ZIP code area 58363. The Survey maps it on the Bisbee North quadrangle. 6 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,732 feet above sea level.

Perth within Towner County

Population over time

2 figures

Perth fell from 9 to 6 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
20109
20206-3 (-33%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Perth between 2002 and 2006, burning about 17 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 use1

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 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyNIGHT
10 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyRACE TRACK

Every fire recorded in Towner County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perth in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 10 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2017Heavy RainPerth-no account filed
June 2007HailPerth-no account filed
May 2007HailPerth-no account filed
July 2005HailPerth-no account filed
June 2003HailPerth-no account filed
August 2002HailPerth-no account filed
May 1999HailPerth-no account filed
August 1998HailPerth-no account filed
June 1997HailPerth-no account filed
June 1997HailPerth-no account filed
July 1996HailPerth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Towner 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
Bisbee7.6 miles7
Amourdale11.6 miles7
Rock Lake12.3 miles7
Arndt13.2 miles7
Considine14.1 miles7
Crocus15.7 miles7
Hansboro16.6 miles7
Egeland20.1 miles7

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 PerthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2310081The 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 1030677. 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.