Arnegard, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1978. It stands in Arnegard City. It lies in ZIP code area 58835. The Survey maps it on the Arnegard quadrangle. 282 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,254 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArnegard grew from 115 to 282 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 | 115 | |
| 2020 | 282 | +167 (+145%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Arnegard quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
11 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Arnegard between 2005 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 30TH ST NW AND 148TH AVE NW |
| 2 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.2 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RT ENERGY |
| 14 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FLARE FIRE |
| 21 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 23 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | T100-R150-S25 IT# 2317 |
| 20 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 'WISNESS', GRASS FIRE |
| 3 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LIGHTNING STRIKE - BRUINS |
| 17 June 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MDU TRANSFORMER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnegard in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Hail | Arnegard | $100,000 | A supercell thunderstorm passed through the Arnegard and surrounding areas, resulting in an extended period of large hail. The largest hail was the size of golf balls. Vehicles were damaged. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Arnegard | $30,000 | A McKenzie County Deputy Sheriff reported between golf ball and baseball size hail with damage in the area. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | $20,000 | A 240 square foot anchored shed was destroyed with debris spread for about a quarter-mile towards the east. Twenty chickens and ten rabbits that lived in the shed perished. A single axle covered snowmobile trailer was blown about 200 yards from its original location and was severely damaged. A large pole barn and home on the site were not damaged. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | $15,000 | Damage to trees and a few structures were reported in Arnegard, McKenzie County from severe thunderstorm wind gusts. Several trees were blown down, causing some minor structural damage. |
| September 1996 | Hail | Arnegard | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Arnegard | - | The tornado touched down in an open field northwest of Arnegard and moved south-southeast. The tornado impacted no structures, thus there was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown). |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Arnegard | - | A funnel cloud developed in the vicinity of Arnegard. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | Law Enforcement estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Arnegard | - | A tornado developed over rural areas between Arnegard and Watford City, and traveled east for almost one-half mile. No damage was reported as the tornado impacted no structures. Based on this, it is rated EF0. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | Two inch diameter tree limbs broken. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | Large tree limbs down. |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | High winds tore roof off barn. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| May 2023 | Hail | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arnegard | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Arnegard | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rawson | 5.3 miles | 6 | |
| Watford City | 8.4 miles | 6 | |
| Alexander | 11.0 miles | 7 | |
| Schafer | 13.5 miles | 7 | |
| Charbonneau | 17.4 miles | 7 | |
| Banks | 20.6 miles | 8 | |
| Cartwright | 26.0 miles | 7 | |
| Johnsons Corner | 26.5 miles | 8 |
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 Arnegard | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1884160 | 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 1027736. 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.



