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Upham, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Meadow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58789. The Survey maps it on the Upham quadrangle. 135 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,447 feet above sea level.

Upham within McHenry County

On record in Upham

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

Upham grew from 130 to 135 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
2010130
2020135+5 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Upham between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,850 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
28 September 1997Debris and open burning130 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugeUPHAM #1
26 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugePLANE
23 September 2020Natural14 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugePOOL 332
3 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge320 DIKE
13 July 2003Natural1.0 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugeFREEMAN
19 May 1998Natural1.0 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugeFREEMAN BR
18 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,701 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugePOOL 326

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upham in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2023FloodUpham$140,000Flooding from snow melt runoff caused significant damages to county infrastructure.
June 2007Tornado (EF1)Upham$100,000The tornado damage path was 1/2 mile from the intersection of 7th Avenue North and 74th Street North, 6 mile south of Upham, toward the southeast. The damage width was 250 yards. Damage was mainly to trees and outbuildings on one farm property, and corresponded to an EF1 rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. From this rating, wind speeds were determined to be on the order of 100 mph. Some specific damage included 3 to 4 foot diameter trees uprooted, roof torn off of chicken coop, and a large barn kinked on its foundation.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindUpham$40,000New machine shop destroyed, equipment in shop OK.
June 2007HailUpham$3,000Reported by Atmospheric Resource Board Observer. A few broken windows.
June 2011Heavy RainUpham-A heavy rainfall report of 2.9 inches in less than one hour was received.
August 2005HailUpham-Also had 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindUpham-Pea-size hail with storm caused crop damage in the area.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindUpham-Strong winds occurred 6 NW of Upham
July 2024HailUpham-no account filed
June 2012Thunderstorm WindUpham-no account filed
June 2011HailUpham-no account filed
June 2008HailUpham-no account filed
June 2007HailUpham-no account filed
May 1998HailUpham-no account filed
June 1996HailUpham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
Bantry8.5 miles7
Milroy14.2 miles7
Cole Ford14.5 miles6
Denbigh19.8 miles8
Riga19.9 miles7
Rising20.8 miles6
Deering21.4 miles9
Granville22.5 miles7

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 UphamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315780The 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 1032608. 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.