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Alexander, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Alexander City. It lies in ZIP code area 58831. It lies near Foreman Butte. The Survey maps it on the Alexander quadrangle. 319 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,188 feet above sea level.

Alexander within McKenzie County

Population over time

2 figures

Alexander grew from 223 to 319 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
2010223
2020319+96 (+43%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Alexander in 2020, burning about 79 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/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCOUNTY RD 20
13 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBENNIE PEIR RD
5 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE IN DITCH ON SIDE OF THE ROAAD
23 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use75 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLYLE BRANCHERS LAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKenzie County

Storms near this place

36 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexander in 36 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 22 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2014FloodAlexander$1,300,000Upwards of three inches of rain in parts of McKenzie County led to significant overland flooding. There was significant damage to roads and crops. A county emergency declaration was issued.
August 1993HailAlexander$50,000no account filed
August 1993HailAlexander$50,000no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAlexander$30,000Half of the roof was blown off a large barn.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindAlexander$3,000The strong thunderstorm winds resulted in a thirty foot elm tree blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Law Enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 mph.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Large hail accompanied the strong winds.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Large hail accompanied the strong winds.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
June 2007HailAlexander-No damage reported.
June 2001HailAlexander-Heavy rain accompanied the hail.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAlexander-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAlexander-no account filed
June 2021HailAlexander-no account filed
June 2021HailAlexander-no account filed
September 2019HailAlexander-no account filed
September 2019HailAlexander-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAlexander-no account filed
July 2018HailAlexander-no account filed
July 2015HailAlexander-no account filed
May 2014HailAlexander-no account filed
May 2014HailAlexander-no account filed
June 2013HailAlexander-no account filed
August 2013HailAlexander-no account filed
August 2013HailAlexander-no account filed
June 2012HailAlexander-no account filed
June 2010HailAlexander-no account filed
June 2009HailAlexander-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindAlexander-no account filed
June 2002HailAlexander-no account filed
June 2002HailAlexander-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAlexander-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAlexander-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindAlexander-no account filed
August 2000HailAlexander-no account filed
June 1999HailAlexander-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McKenzie 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
Rawson5.6 miles6
Charbonneau6.4 miles7
Arnegard11.0 miles6
Cartwright15.1 miles7
Watford City19.3 miles6
Harding19.8 miles8
East Fairview21.1 miles8
Dore21.3 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 AlexanderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28169The 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 1034679. 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.