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South Heart, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in South Heart City. It lies in ZIP code area 58655. It stands on South Branch Heart River. The Survey maps it on the South Heart quadrangle. 394 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,487 feet above sea level.

South Heart within Stark County

Population over time

2 figures

South Heart grew from 301 to 394 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
2010301
2020394+93 (+31%)

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

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of South Heart in 2015, burning about 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI 94 2
29 June 2015Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDEB KOSTELECKY
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI 94
28 March 2015Natural2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRON BUCKMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Heart in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2014FloodSouth Heart$550,000Upwards of six inches of rain in parts of Stark County led to overland flooding. There was damage to roads and crops in the northern part of the county.
August 2010HailSouth Heart$200,000The largest hailstone during this event was two and one half inches in diameter. The large hail damaged windows, siding, crops, and vehicles.
July 2025HailSouth Heart$50,000Windows were broken by the hail, while roofs and vehicles were damaged.
June 2014HailSouth Heart$15,000Most of the hail was quarter size, with a few as large as baseballs. There was damage to vehicles.
August 2011Flash FloodSouth Heart$15,000Four inches of rain in this area flash flooded parts of Highway 10 near South Heart forcing the closure of the road. Deep water was also reported just outside of Belfield.
August 2011LightningSouth Heart$5,000A lightning strike triggered a large grass fire near South Heart in western Stark County. The fire also burned around fifty hay bales.
June 2024Tornado (EFU)South Heart-The tornado touched down in an open field southwest of South Heart and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EFU (Unknown).
July 2011Tornado (EF0)South Heart-This tornado touched down in the open country. There were no reports of damage associated with this tornado.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindSouth Heart-Penny size hail along with winds.
June 2025HailSouth Heart-no account filed
July 2019HailSouth Heart-no account filed
August 2017HailSouth Heart-no account filed
June 2014HailSouth Heart-no account filed
June 2014HailSouth Heart-no account filed
June 2009HailSouth Heart-no account filed
July 1997HailSouth Heart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stark 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
Zenith5.7 miles6
Eland5.8 miles5
Dickinson10.7 miles6
Daglum10.9 miles7
Belfield11.1 miles7
Gaylord13.2 miles7
Schefield15.0 miles5
Lehigh15.7 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 South HeartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2083999The 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 1032192. 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.