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.
Population over time
2 figuresSouth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 301 | |
| 2020 | 394 | +93 (+31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1953 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS South Heart quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | I 94 2 |
| 29 June 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DEB KOSTELECKY |
| 3 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | I 94 |
| 28 March 2015 | Natural | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RON BUCKMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Flood | South Heart | $550,000 | Upwards 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 2010 | Hail | South Heart | $200,000 | The largest hailstone during this event was two and one half inches in diameter. The large hail damaged windows, siding, crops, and vehicles. |
| July 2025 | Hail | South Heart | $50,000 | Windows were broken by the hail, while roofs and vehicles were damaged. |
| June 2014 | Hail | South Heart | $15,000 | Most of the hail was quarter size, with a few as large as baseballs. There was damage to vehicles. |
| August 2011 | Flash Flood | South Heart | $15,000 | Four 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 2011 | Lightning | South Heart | $5,000 | A lightning strike triggered a large grass fire near South Heart in western Stark County. The fire also burned around fifty hay bales. |
| June 2024 | Tornado (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 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | South Heart | - | This tornado touched down in the open country. There were no reports of damage associated with this tornado. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | South Heart | - | Penny size hail along with winds. |
| June 2025 | Hail | South Heart | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | South Heart | - | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Hail | South Heart | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | South Heart | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | South Heart | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | South Heart | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | South Heart | - | 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 South Heart | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2083999 | 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 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.



