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.
Population over time
2 figuresSibley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 30 | |
| 2020 | 19 | -11 (-37%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Sibley quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 May 2017 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | GOOSE LAKE/FUGELSTAD WPA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF2) | Sibley | $1,000,000 | Several 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sibley | $500 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Sibley | - | Report of quarter size hail. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Sibley | - | Report relayed from mping. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sibley | - | A few trees were blown down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sibley | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. Shingles were blown off a house in the vicinity. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sibley | - | A few 3 to 5 inch diameter tree branches were snapped off near Eggerts Landing Campground. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Sibley | - | The hail fell at the west side boat ramp on Lake Astabula. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Sibley | - | The hail fell near the west end of Lake Astabula and Sibley crossing. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sibley | - | 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 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Sibley | - | Three brief dust swirls were seen. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sibley | - | 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs were snapped off by the strong wind gusts. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Sibley | - | 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 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Sibley | - | A tornado passed over the north end of Lake Ashtabula. This tornado dissipated in Griggs county. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Sibley | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Sibley | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Sibley | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Sibley | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Sibley | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Sibley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashtabula (historical) | 6.3 miles | 8 | |
| Pillsbury | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Dazey | 12.7 miles | 8 | |
| Rogers | 16.0 miles | 8 | |
| Odell (historical) | 16.2 miles | 8 | |
| North Valley City | 18.8 miles | 10 | |
| Peak | 19.9 miles | 10 | |
| Leal | 20.2 miles | 8 |
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 Sibley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2179723 | 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 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.




