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Alice, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Alice City. It lies in ZIP code area 58031. The Survey maps it on the Alice quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Alice within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Alice grew from 40 to 41 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
201040
202041+1 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Alice between 1996 and 2016, burning about 1,204 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 July 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE3
14 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE UNIT 2
4 June 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE1
20 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM314 CAR/GRASS FIRE
27 May 2015Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM314/I94 GRASS FIRE
15 May 2000Debris and open burning43 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE
11 May 2002Smoking648 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictKRAUS
8 April 2005Arson/incendiarism76 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictALICE WPA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alice in 33 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 18 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAlice$1,000,000The roof was torn off a machine shed, collapsing the building on the equipment inside. Debris was strewn downwind for one-half mile. A camper was also rolled over and destroyed. Extensive crop damage occurred in Clifton, Pontiac, and Highland Townships.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindAlice$500,000Trees were uprooted at the Alice cemetery and tombstones were tipped over.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAlice$20,000Trees were blown down onto homes and powerlines, cutting power to the town. A machine shed had its walls blown out.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAlice$10,000A grain bin was damaged.
July 1999Flash FloodAlice$10,0004.1 inches of rain was reported just southwest of Alice. A flooded basement was reported.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindAlice$500Large branches were blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAlice$200Trees were blown down.
June 2025Tornado (EF2)Alice-A second tornado developed, in Cass County, from the same supercell thunderstorm about 4 miles northeast of Enderlin and tracked to the southeast, crossed Highway 46 into Ransom County, then weakened and dissipated. This tornado was on the ground for almost 7 miles, at its widest was about 1351 yards wide in Cass county. Damage indicators along the path of this tornado correlates to EF-2 damage, with peak winds estimated to be around 120 mph. Along the path of this tornado was extensive tree damage, including trees snapped and uprooted. Several roofs were partially blown apart as well as crop damage visible from high resolution satellite data.
May 2024Funnel CloudAlice-Broadcast Media relays report of funnel cloud persisting in Cass county.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAlice-WeatherUnderground station reports a gust to 58 mph.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAlice-Peak wind was measured at a personal weather station.
July 2020HailAlice-Small branches were blown down as well.
August 2017HailAlice-Very heavy rain, strong wind, and hail fell across central Clifton Township. Hail nearly covered the ground. Most of the hailstones were pea to dime size, but a few were quarter sized.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAlice-Large branches were blown off trees in shelterbelts along highway 46.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindAlice-Four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down in a yard.
July 2011HailAlice-The hail was mostly marble size but there were a few quarter sized hailstones.
July 2010Tornado (EF1)Alice-The tornado tracked nearly due eastward along ND Highway 46 with occassional movement back and forth across the highway. Mature shelter belts that lined the highway were violently shattered at various points along the route indicating peak winds of 100 to 110 mph. Large hail, heavy rains, and damaging downburst winds accompanied the tornado.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAlice-Trees were blown down.
August 2006HailAlice-no account filed
August 2006HailAlice-no account filed
May 2005HailAlice-no account filed
September 2005HailAlice-no account filed
July 2002HailAlice-no account filed
June 2001HailAlice-no account filed
July 2001HailAlice-no account filed
September 2000HailAlice-no account filed
September 2000HailAlice-no account filed
August 2000HailAlice-no account filed
June 1999HailAlice-no account filed
June 1999HailAlice-no account filed
July 1999HailAlice-no account filed
August 1998HailAlice-no account filed
July 1998HailAlice-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Embden7.1 miles11
Chaffee10.8 miles11
Buffalo10.9 miles10
Magnolia12.4 miles11
Wheatland Colony12.5 miles10
Tower City12.7 miles10
Myra14.0 miles11
Wheatland15.0 miles11

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 AliceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28121The 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 1027669. 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.