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.
Population over time
2 figuresAlice 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 40 | |
| 2020 | 41 | +1 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1897 USGS Tower quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Alice quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
27 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE3 |
| 14 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE UNIT 2 |
| 4 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE1 |
| 20 June 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | MM314 CAR/GRASS FIRE |
| 27 May 2015 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MM314/I94 GRASS FIRE |
| 15 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 43 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE |
| 11 May 2002 | Smoking | 648 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | KRAUS |
| 8 April 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 76 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | ALICE WPA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | $1,000,000 | The 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | $500,000 | Trees were uprooted at the Alice cemetery and tombstones were tipped over. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | $20,000 | Trees were blown down onto homes and powerlines, cutting power to the town. A machine shed had its walls blown out. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | $10,000 | A grain bin was damaged. |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Alice | $10,000 | 4.1 inches of rain was reported just southwest of Alice. A flooded basement was reported. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | $500 | Large branches were blown down. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | $200 | Trees were blown down. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (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 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Alice | - | Broadcast Media relays report of funnel cloud persisting in Cass county. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | - | WeatherUnderground station reports a gust to 58 mph. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | - | Peak wind was measured at a personal weather station. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Alice | - | Small branches were blown down as well. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Alice | - | 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | - | Large branches were blown off trees in shelterbelts along highway 46. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | - | Four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down in a yard. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Alice | - | The hail was mostly marble size but there were a few quarter sized hailstones. |
| July 2010 | Tornado (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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alice | - | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Alice | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Alice | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embden | 7.1 miles | 11 | |
| Chaffee | 10.8 miles | 11 | |
| Buffalo | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Magnolia | 12.4 miles | 11 | |
| Wheatland Colony | 12.5 miles | 10 | |
| Tower City | 12.7 miles | 10 | |
| Myra | 14.0 miles | 11 | |
| Wheatland | 15.0 miles | 11 |
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 Alice | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28121 | 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 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.





