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Underwood, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1961. It stands in Underwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 58576. The Survey maps it on the Underwood quadrangle. 784 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,021 feet above sea level.

Underwood within McLean County

On record in Underwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Underwood grew from 778 to 784 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
2010778
2020784+6 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Underwood in 2012, burning about 72 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
22 March 2012Equipment and vehicle use72 acresAudubon National Wildlife RefugeFALKIRK ENTRANCE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Underwood in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindUnderwood$500,000Thunderstorm wind gust speed was based on damage photos. Multiple roofs were damaged. Large trees were snapped and uprooted, and one tree landed on a car and crushed it. Various other vehicles were damaged by falling trees and limbs. A camper was overturned.
August 2006Tornado (F2)Underwood$200,000This low end F2 tornado, on the order of 120 mph, produced considerable damage to a farm house and outbuildings 9 miles southwest of Underwood. The attached garage was completely torn from the two story house, and the roofing materials were also torn away, leaving the trusses visible. One detached shop, garden shed, and well house were destroyed. Items from the property were found 1/2 mile away. Nearby power lines were down. National Weather Service personnel conducted storm surveys of the area on two different days.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindUnderwood$110,000A large swath of power poles along Highway 85 were snapped.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindUnderwood$15,000A partially build garage was damaged by the strong winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindUnderwood$15,000Severe criteria winds lasted the whole period with the peak gust estimated at 80 mph. Numerous trees down, especially on the west side of the city.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindUnderwood$3,000Large tree branches were down.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Underwood-A brief tornado touched down near Underwood but did not impact any structures. No damage was reported with this tornado.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Underwood-A brief tornado touchdown occurred in open country. The tornado impacted no structures and so no damage was done.
August 2006HailUnderwood-65 mph winds were also reported along with the large hail.
August 2000HailUnderwood-Hail lasted 20 minutes.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Underwood-touch down in open field. no damage.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindUnderwood-Strong winds from a severe thunderstorm tore the roof off a large pole barn at the Coal Creek Station power plant.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindUnderwood-Strong winds knocked down 100 year old tree.
July 2019HailUnderwood-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindUnderwood-no account filed
July 2010HailUnderwood-no account filed
June 2010HailUnderwood-no account filed
June 2009HailUnderwood-no account filed
July 2008HailUnderwood-no account filed
August 2006HailUnderwood-no account filed
May 2003HailUnderwood-no account filed
May 2003HailUnderwood-no account filed
August 2001HailUnderwood-no account filed
September 2000HailUnderwood-no account filed
September 2000HailUnderwood-no account filed
August 2000HailUnderwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Riverdale Junction3.6 miles8
Falkirk6.9 miles9
Coleharbor7.6 miles9
Riverdale12.7 miles7
Washburn12.9 miles9
Turtle Lake13.8 miles8
Merida18.4 miles8
Garrison20.0 miles8

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 UnderwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315742The 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 1032588. 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.