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Selz, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Hagel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58341. The Survey maps it on the Harvey quadrangle. 40 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.

Selz within Pierce County

Population over time

2 figures

Selz fell from 46 to 40 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
201046
202040-6 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Selz between 2000 and 2016, burning about 5 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 burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
28 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSEIBEL FIRE
2 March 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFort Totten AgencyWW1609

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this place

21 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selz in 21 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 15 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindSelz$15,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Selz.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSelz-The severe wind gusts combined with dime size hail to cause soybean field damage.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Selz-Tornado briefly touched down in open country. No damage reported.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindSelz-Trained storm spotter reported branches down and crop damage 12 miles west northwest of Selz. In the city of Selz, numerous large tree's down, including a 60 foot pine tree. A 5000 bushel grain bin lifted and blown 200 yards and destroyed. Several other grain bins were twisted off their foundations. Roof damage to several homes reported.
July 1999HailSelz-Significant agricultural damage.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindSelz-no account filed
June 2023HailSelz-no account filed
July 2022HailSelz-no account filed
June 2020HailSelz-no account filed
July 2017HailSelz-no account filed
July 2017HailSelz-no account filed
September 2016HailSelz-no account filed
July 2016HailSelz-no account filed
July 2016HailSelz-no account filed
June 2015HailSelz-no account filed
June 2015HailSelz-no account filed
July 2015HailSelz-no account filed
September 2014HailSelz-no account filed
June 2010HailSelz-no account filed
June 2009HailSelz-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSelz-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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
Clifton7.9 miles10
Aylmer16.8 miles9
Silva21.6 miles6
Orrin21.6 miles6
Balta22.7 miles7
Rugby35.7 miles7
Tunbridge36.9 miles7
Leverich41.2 miles6

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 SelzAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4136978The 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 1032017. 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.