Sanborn, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sanborn City. It lies in ZIP code area 58480. The Survey maps it on the Sanborn quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSanborn fell from 192 to 161 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 | 192 | |
| 2020 | 161 | -31 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1897 USGS Eckelson quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Sanborn quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Sanborn between 2005 and 2020, burning about 172 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DON SCHLOTMAN |
| 5 August 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURLINGTON NORTHERN |
| 6 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | BARTZ WPA |
| 5 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 9 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 26 June 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 18 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanborn in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanborn | - | The wind was accompanied by half inch hail. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanborn | - | Tree damage was reported around the Lake Ashtabula campground. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanborn | - | Several four inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Sanborn | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Sanborn | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nobart (historical) | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Eckelson | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Berea | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Odell (historical) | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Rogers | 9.1 miles | 8 | |
| Urbana | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Valley City | 11.8 miles | 11 | |
| North Valley City | 12.1 miles | 10 |
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 Sanborn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48789 | 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 1031334. 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.




