Ardoch, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ardoch City. It lies in ZIP code area 58261. The Survey maps it on the Ardoch quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArdoch fell from 67 to 31 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 | 67 | |
| 2020 | 31 | -36 (-54%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1926 USGS Ardoch quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Ardoch quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ardoch between 1993 and 2019, burning about 5,549 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 June 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201807 |
| 1 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201909 |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURN BAND 3 |
| 6 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 May 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURN BAND 2 |
| 23 May 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.7 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | FOREST RIVER |
| 17 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURN BAND 4 |
| 22 April 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | LAKE ARDOC |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ardoch in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 7 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2020 | Flash Flood | Ardoch | $50,000 | Fields and farm access roads were flooded across portions of Ardoch and Walshville townships. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ardoch | $50,000 | A coal shed was blown down in Ardoch. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ardoch | $20,000 | An estimated 500 trees were destroyed by the wind and 2 barns were damaged. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Ardoch | - | Public report of quarter size hail. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ardoch | - | Numerous poplar tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts west of town. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ardoch | - | Pieces of a metal roof were torn off a small horse barn by the strong wind and many branches were strewn around the farmyard. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Ardoch | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Ardoch | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Ardoch | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Ardoch | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ardoch | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Ardoch | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ardoch | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Ardoch | - | 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.
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 Ardoch | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2416494 | 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 1027725. 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.






