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.
Population over time
2 figuresSelz 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 46 | |
| 2020 | 40 | -6 (-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.
- 1941 USGS Selz quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Harvey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SEIBEL FIRE |
| 2 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | WW1609 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selz | $15,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees near Selz. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selz | - | The severe wind gusts combined with dime size hail to cause soybean field damage. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Selz | - | Tornado briefly touched down in open country. No damage reported. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selz | - | 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 1999 | Hail | Selz | - | Significant agricultural damage. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selz | - | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Selz | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Selz | - | 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 Selz | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4136978 | 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 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.





