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Sibley, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sibley City. It lies in ZIP code area 58429. The Survey maps it on the Sibley quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,273 feet above sea level.

Sibley within Barnes County

Population over time

2 figures

Sibley fell from 30 to 19 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
201030
202019-11 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sibley in 2017, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
8 May 2017Natural8.0 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictGOOSE LAKE/FUGELSTAD WPA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnes County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sibley in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2010Tornado (EF2)Sibley$1,000,000Several grain bins were lofted for a mile or more and destroyed. Large pine trees were uprooted and numerous trees were stripped of leaves and branches. Equipment storage buildings were unroofed and otherwise flattened to the ground. The tornado tracked continuously for at 14 to 15 miles. There was also widespread wind and hail damage observed in the area.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindSibley$500no account filed
June 2025HailSibley-Report of quarter size hail.
June 2025HailSibley-Report relayed from mping.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSibley-A few trees were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindSibley-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. Shingles were blown off a house in the vicinity.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSibley-A few 3 to 5 inch diameter tree branches were snapped off near Eggerts Landing Campground.
June 2018HailSibley-The hail fell at the west side boat ramp on Lake Astabula.
July 2017HailSibley-The hail fell near the west end of Lake Astabula and Sibley crossing.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Sibley-A persistent wall cloud and funnel tracked northeast from the Baldhill Dam area and produced multiple brief touchdowns along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSibley-Widespread downburst wind damage was noted across northeast Barnes County and into adjacent portions of southwest Steele County and southeast Griggs County. Significant crop and tree damage occurred across Baldwin Township which indicated peak wind speeds of from 90 to 100 mph. This damage is separate from concurrent and adjacent tornado damage.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Sibley-Three brief dust swirls were seen.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindSibley-6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were snapped off by the strong wind gusts.
June 2005Flash FloodSibley-4 to 7 inches of rain fell in a four hour period. Three houses were flooded due to excessive runoff from the heavy rain. One house had main floor flooding while the other two had flooding in their garage and shop areas. Lake Ashtabula rose around 6 inches in four hours. Gravel roads accessing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers campgrounds southwest of Sibley were washed out.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Sibley-A tornado passed over the north end of Lake Ashtabula. This tornado dissipated in Griggs county.
May 2019HailSibley-no account filed
May 2007HailSibley-no account filed
May 2007HailSibley-no account filed
September 2005HailSibley-no account filed
June 2004HailSibley-no account filed
July 2002HailSibley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnes 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
Ashtabula (historical)6.3 miles8
Pillsbury9.2 miles8
Dazey12.7 miles8
Rogers16.0 miles8
Odell (historical)16.2 miles8
North Valley City18.8 miles10
Peak19.9 miles10
Leal20.2 miles8

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 SibleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2179723The 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 1032073. 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.