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Verona, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Verona City. It lies in ZIP code area 58490. The Survey maps it on the Verona quadrangle. 59 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,388 feet above sea level.

Verona within LaMoure County

Population over time

2 figures

Verona fell from 85 to 59 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
201085
202059-26 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Verona between 1999 and 2020, burning about 667 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFUGL'S
26 April 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeANDERSON REINKE WPA WILDFIRE
4 November 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2020-1104
20 November 2017Arson/incendiarism500 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGAYLEN DICK
20 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresTewaukon Wetland Management DistrictSMITH-TANNER WPA
19 November 1999Debris and open burning140 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeTANNER WPA

Every fire recorded in LaMoure County

Storms near this place

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Verona in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2020Thunderstorm WindVerona$500,000Significant damage occurred to two farmsteads in close proximity to each other. Multiple pole barn sheds and grain bins were either severely damaged or destroyed. Shelterbelts were severely damaged, with multiple trees either broken or uprooted. Many pieces of farm equipment were also damaged.
June 1998HailVerona$200,000Hailed 30 minutes, total crop loss near intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 27. Hail size and exact time of hail estimated.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindVerona$8,000Shingles were damaged by the wind.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindVerona$5,000A 40 foot tall evergreen was uprooted and fell onto a shed.
May 1994HailVerona$5,000no account filed
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Verona-The tornado touched down in an open field north of Verona and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown).
July 2023Tornado (EFU)Verona-The tornado touched down in an open field north of Verona and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF Unknown.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindVerona-Emergency management reported thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2005LightningVerona-Barn struck by lightning and started it on fire. The fire completely destroyed the barn.
July 2003Tornado (F0)Verona-Tornado touched down in open country snapping four (4) foot diameter trees.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindVerona-no account filed
August 2020HailVerona-no account filed
August 2020HailVerona-no account filed
July 2017HailVerona-no account filed
May 2015Funnel CloudVerona-no account filed
July 2012HailVerona-no account filed
July 2012HailVerona-no account filed
August 2010Funnel CloudVerona-no account filed
September 2000HailVerona-no account filed
June 1997HailVerona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaMoure 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
Independence6.6 miles11
Benson Corner10.8 miles11
LaMoure11.8 miles13
Grand Rapids16.8 miles12
Fairview Colony17.5 miles12
Marion21.7 miles10
Berlin22.2 miles12
Dickey24.1 miles10

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 VeronaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2422503The 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 1033683. 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.