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Solen, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Solen City. It lies in ZIP code area 58570. The Survey maps it on the Solen quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,670 feet above sea level.

Solen within Sioux County

Population over time

2 figures

Solen fell from 83 to 70 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
201083
202070-13 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Solen between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,476 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Natural3
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined53 acresStanding Rock AgencyGEORGE
29 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyD. SCHMIDT
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresStanding Rock AgencyBRAVE BULL
23 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyMARGARET1
20 September 2001Naturalunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyHATZENBULR
17 September 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyN. BRIDGE
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresStanding Rock AgencySOLEN3
12 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresStanding Rock AgencyWIZARD

Every fire recorded in Sioux County

Storms near this place

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solen in 20 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 13 hail, 3 flood, 2 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2013Flash FloodSolen$250,000Torrential rain, with reports up to six inches, resulted in a flash flood over central Sioux County. The reports were consistent with Doppler Radar rain estimates. State Highway 6 was closed due to a foot of water flowing rapidly over the road at mile marker 18. Numerous county and tribal roads were flooded and had severe wash outs. Culverts were washed completely out in some cases.
June 2011FloodSolen$250,000See the event episode narrative for details.
July 2010HailSolen$100,000Damage amounts were estimated based on the extreme hail size.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSolen$75,000NWS storm survey completed for this event. Damage to outbuildings, grain bins, horse trailer, picnic benches, empty oil type drums, and other items on the farm. Storm survey determined the damage was caused by high thunderstorm wind gusts and not a tornado. Location 10 miles south and 1 east of Solen.
August 2011FloodSolen-See the event episode narrative for details.
July 2011FloodSolen-See the event episode narrative for details.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Solen-No damage.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Solen-No damage reported. Tornado in open field.
September 2025HailSolen-no account filed
September 2025HailSolen-no account filed
May 2024HailSolen-no account filed
June 2021HailSolen-no account filed
July 2019HailSolen-no account filed
May 2016HailSolen-no account filed
July 2016HailSolen-no account filed
June 2015HailSolen-no account filed
June 2012HailSolen-no account filed
June 2012HailSolen-no account filed
August 2008HailSolen-no account filed
July 2001HailSolen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sioux 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
Cannon Ball10.8 miles6
Porcupine19.8 miles5
Chadwick20.2 miles5
Fort Yates22.7 miles5
Selfridge24.9 miles5

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 SolenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q600122The 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 1032166. 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.