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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.

Ardoch within Walsh County

Population over time

2 figures

Ardoch 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.

YearPeople Change
201067
202031-36 (-54%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

11 since 1993

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
23 June 2018Smokingunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service201807
1 June 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201909
7 May 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURN BAND 3
6 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 May 2018Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURN BAND 2
23 May 2006Arson/incendiarism6.7 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictFOREST RIVER
17 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURN BAND 4
22 April 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictLAKE ARDOC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walsh County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Flash FloodArdoch$50,000Fields and farm access roads were flooded across portions of Ardoch and Walshville townships.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindArdoch$50,000A coal shed was blown down in Ardoch.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindArdoch$20,000An estimated 500 trees were destroyed by the wind and 2 barns were damaged.
July 2025HailArdoch-Public report of quarter size hail.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindArdoch-Numerous poplar tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts west of town.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindArdoch-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 2015Funnel CloudArdoch-no account filed
September 2005HailArdoch-no account filed
July 2001HailArdoch-no account filed
September 2000HailArdoch-no account filed
July 1999HailArdoch-no account filed
July 1999Tornado (F0)Ardoch-no account filed
July 1999HailArdoch-no account filed
September 1997HailArdoch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walsh 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
Minto6.0 miles9
Poland6.6 miles10
Forest River6.7 miles9
Warsaw7.7 miles9
Voss8.6 miles9
Herriott10.5 miles9
Kellogg11.7 miles9
Ops13.6 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 ArdochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2416494The 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.