Argusville, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Argusville City. It lies in ZIP code area 58005. The Survey maps it on the Argusville quadrangle. 480 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 886 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArgusville grew from 475 to 480 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 | 475 | |
| 2020 | 480 | +5 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Argusville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Argusville between 2005 and 2019, burning about 47 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RICHWOOD 1 |
| 21 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 16878 CAROLYN DR. |
| 24 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MM 78, I29 |
| 14 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | I29 TRAILER TIRE |
| 28 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CASS 4 DITCH |
| 14 June 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | I94 MM80 |
| 6 May 2005 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 5 May 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 170TH AVE. SE & 28TH ST. SE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Argusville in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | 1 hurt, $200,000 | Four tractor-trailer rigs were blown off Interstate 29 between mile posts 81 and 84. Traffic had to be rerouted for 1.5 hours while the vehicles were removed. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | $5,000 | Numerous 3 to 5 inch diameter tree branches were broken down around town. Roof panels were blown off of a pole shed north of town. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Argusville | - | Report relayed via social media. Quarter size hail and zero visibility in thunderstorm. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Argusville | - | Just west of Argusville report of golf ball size hail from broadcast media. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Argusville | - | Public report of hail via social media. Time estimate based on radar. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | - | A few large branches were blown down in a shelterbelt. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | - | Strong winds associated with a gust front crossing Interstate 29 between Harwood and Argusville caused vehicles to slide on the pavement. A nearby wind sensor reported a wind gust of 79 mph. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Argusville | - | Strong winds and hail were reported. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Argusville | - | Quarter to golf ball sized hail fell with very strong winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | - | A few large trees were blown down in Argusville. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Argusville | - | The hail was mostly dime sized. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | - | A semi tractor and trailer combination was blown off the interstate near the Argusville exit. The time was estimated from radar. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | - | A 60 foot tall tree was blown over. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Argusville | - | no account filed |
| September 1997 | Hail | Argusville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooktree Park | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Harwood | 5.8 miles | 24 | |
| Gardner | 6.8 miles | 8 | |
| Prosper | 7.6 miles | 13 | |
| Pinkham | 9.2 miles | 24 | |
| Reiles Acres | 9.6 miles | 25 | |
| Newman | 9.7 miles | 13 | |
| North River | 9.9 miles | 25 |
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 Argusville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q748997 | 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 1027730. 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.




