BlockSykeston, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sykeston City. It lies in ZIP code area 58486. The Survey maps it on the Sykeston quadrangle. 105 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSykeston fell from 117 to 105 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 | 117 | |
| 2020 | 105 | -12 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1951 USGS Sykeston quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Sykeston quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Carrington quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
14 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sykeston in 14 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | $150,000 | Multiple grain bins were damaged. Shingles and paneling were blown off another building. |
| June 2022 | Flash Flood | Sykeston | $150,000 | Heavy rain in excess of three inches fell on southeast Wells County during the late night hours. Johnson Township, south of Sykeston, suffered the greatest damage. Over this area, almost all roads had water over them, with many barricaded. Road washouts were numerous. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Sykeston | $50,000 | Very heavy rain, estimated at near seven inches peak based on radar, fell over southeast Wells County. Roads in the area were flooded and damaged. |
| September 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | $30,000 | Damage occurred to outbuildings on the farm, including part of a metal roof being torn off and blown into the farm house. The metal roofing material and a two by four broke windows on the house. In one case a two by four ended up partially inside the residence. There were no injuries. |
| May 2006 | Flash Flood | Sykeston | $25,000 | 3.95 inches of rain. County roads under 8 inches of water. Culvert washed out. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Sykeston | $10,000 | There was standing water around all of the farm buildings. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Sykeston | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Sykeston | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sykeston | - | 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 Sykeston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21849 | 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 1032426. 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.
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.