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York, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58386. The Survey maps it on the York quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,611 feet above sea level.

York within Benson County

On record in York

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

York fell from 23 to 17 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
201023
202017-6 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of York in 2007, burning about 180 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
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
13 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined180 acresNorth Dakota State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of York: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clairmont Const PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Benson County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names York in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2024HailYork-Half dollar to ping pong ball sized hail. Covered 15 to 20% of the ground.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindYork-Multiple trees reported blown down in York. Report received via social media and time estimated via radar.
May 2020Tornado (EF0)York-A tornado (landspout) briefly touched down north of York, in Benson County.
September 2018HailYork-Small hail nearly covered the ground.
May 2007Flash FloodYork-Numerous roads were flooded between York and Knox. One farmer had his farmstead access road flooded in 4 different places. Roughly 5 inches of rain fell in about 3 hours.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindYork-The roof was torn off a pole barn.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindYork-60 to 70 mph winds flattened area fields. One inch of rain also fell.
June 2007HailYork-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindYork-no account filed
July 2002HailYork-no account filed
May 1999HailYork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benson 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
Knox6.5 miles7
Leeds7.4 miles7
Harlow10.7 miles6
Baker11.2 miles6
Niles12.1 miles6
Pleasant Lake12.6 miles7
Comstock14.7 miles7
Fillmore15.1 miles6

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 YorkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576936The 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 1032894. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.