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.
Population over time
2 figuresAlexander 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 223 | |
| 2020 | 319 | +96 (+43%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Alexander quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Alexander quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 2020Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | COUNTY RD 20 |
| 13 June 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BENNIE PEIR RD |
| 5 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE IN DITCH ON SIDE OF THE ROAAD |
| 23 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 22 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 75 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LYLE BRANCHERS LAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
36 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Flood | Alexander | $1,300,000 | Upwards 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 1993 | Hail | Alexander | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Alexander | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | $30,000 | Half of the roof was blown off a large barn. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | $3,000 | The strong thunderstorm winds resulted in a thirty foot elm tree blown down. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Law Enforcement estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 65 mph. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Large hail accompanied the strong winds. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Large hail accompanied the strong winds. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | Very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Alexander | - | No damage reported. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Alexander | - | Heavy rain accompanied the hail. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Alexander | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rawson | 5.6 miles | 6 | |
| Charbonneau | 6.4 miles | 7 | |
| Arnegard | 11.0 miles | 6 | |
| Cartwright | 15.1 miles | 7 | |
| Watford City | 19.3 miles | 6 | |
| Harding | 19.8 miles | 8 | |
| East Fairview | 21.1 miles | 8 | |
| Dore | 21.3 miles | 8 |
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 Alexander | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28169 | The 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.




