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Ashley, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashley City. It lies in ZIP code area 58413. The Survey maps it on the Ashley East quadrangle. 613 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,014 feet above sea level.

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Ashley within McIntosh County

On record in Ashley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ashley fell from 749 to 613 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
2010749
2020613-136 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ashley in 2006, burning about 55 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 burning1

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
4 December 2006Debris and open burning55 acresKulm Wetlands Management DistrictWEISZ WPA WILDFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

60 of 104 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashley in 104 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 62 hail, 30 thunderstorm wind, 9 tornado, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1993HailAshley$500,000no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAshley$250,000Six structures on a farmstead were either damaged or destroyed by severe thunderstorm winds. The structures were mainly pole barns, but one was a cinder block silo which may have been stuck by other debris. The debris was spread for one-quarter mile to the northeast.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAshley$250,000Severe thunderstorm winds resulted in a swath of damage around Ashley. Five miles northeast of Ashley on a ranch, the roof of a cattle barn was torn off and several cottonwood trees were snapped. Seven miles north of Ashley, several outbuildings were damaged on a ranch, including shingles torn off of a home and a trailer tipped over by the winds. Along the entire path of the damage, many tree branches were broken along with tree trunks snapped. There was also crop damage in the area north and east of Ashley.
May 2010Flash FloodAshley$225,000Heavy rainfall near two inches in less than one hour resulted in flash flood conditions in the city of Ashley. Many homes had water in their basements, resulting in severe carpet damage and other moisture related damages. Dollar amount is estimated based on reports from the McIntosh County Emergency Manager.
June 2001HailAshley$100,000Vehicle lot severely damaged. Widespread auto and roof damage throughout the city.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAshley$75,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in damage to buildings on a farmstead, and damage to hay bales.
May 1996HailAshley$55,000no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindAshley$50,000Strong straight line winds associated with a severe thunderstorm resulted in damage to farm outbuildings.
August 2006HailAshley$35,000Hail swath 1/2 mile long and 1/4 mile wide through Ashley. Wind gust to 65 mph estimated. Windows broken in town.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAshley$30,000Large trees were blown down.
August 2006HailAshley$30,000Broken windows plus shingle and siding damage were reported on three farms. In one case, broken glass was imbedded in a wall 25 feet away. Hail was 5 inches deep, and was described by one farmer as a sea of white as far as the eye could see.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAshley$25,000Two buildings on a farm were damaged.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAshley$25,000Damage to quonset. Door blown in and roof damaged.
August 2025Flash FloodAshley$20,000Over three inches of rain fell during a short period of time to result in water filling low lying areas and overflowing some rural roads.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAshley$10,000The strong thunderstorm winds resulted in roof damage to a pole barn.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAshley$10,000Estimated thunderstorm wind speed gusts up to 70 mile per hour resulted in trees being blown down and shingles blown off of a house five miles northeast of Ashley.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAshley$7,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew shingles off of a roof.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindAshley$5,000Tree branches around four inches in diameter were snapped.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAshley$2,000Tree branches were blown down by the strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAshley$2,000Also had 1.00 inch diameter hail. Large tree blown over. Windows broken.
May 2006HailAshley$500Windshield of sheriff patrol car broken.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindAshley$100The strong thunderstorm winds blew over a basketball pole cemented in the ground.
July 2023Tornado (EFU)Ashley-The tornado touched down in an open field southwest of Kulm and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF Unknown.
July 2022HailAshley-Extensive crop damage occurred.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAshley-A COOP Observer estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph.
June 2020Tornado (EFU)Ashley-The tornado touched down in a field just west-northwest of Ashley. There was no damage to evaluate and so by National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF Unknown.
June 2020HailAshley-The hail combined with wind gusts to 50 mph to damage crops.
August 2017HailAshley-Soybean crops suffered damage.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAshley-A member of the public in Ashley reported strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2014Tornado (EF0)Ashley-This tornado touched down briefly in open country just off of North Dakota Highway 3 south of Ashley. There was no damage so this tornado was rated EF0.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAshley-Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
March 2012HailAshley-No damage reported.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Ashley-A tornado touched down in a field near Ashley. No damage was reported with this tornado.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAshley-Report at Venturia.
July 2008HailAshley-Hail up to golf ball size fell in Ashley for around fifteen minutes.
June 2007HailAshley-Hail fell from 430 AM CDT to 455 AM CDT and covered the ground. The largest stone was penny size.
May 2006HailAshley-Rainfall of 1.3 inches.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Ashley-Report by McIntosh County Sheriff deputy just north of the North Dakota and South Dakota border. Tornado briefly touched down. No structures impacted and no damage.
August 2006HailAshley-Hail was accompanied by 60+ mph winds and heavy rain. No damage was reported.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAshley-A sturdy wooden machine shed destroyed. A 4500 pound Bobcat skid-steer loader flipped over. A mixer mill, fishing boat and motor tossed in a pile of rubble. Marble size hail accompanied the wind.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Ashley-A tornado briefly touched down in rural country and then completely lifted.
May 2004Tornado (F1)Ashley-This tornado remained in rural country. It was produced by the same thunderstorm that produced the tornado minutes earlier in the same county (McIntosh).
July 2002Tornado (F0)Ashley-Tornado briefly touched down in open country. Rainfall from the storm measured at 2.50 inches. Crops on 3 seperate farms reported wiped out.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAshley-Trees blown over by the wind.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindAshley-Cooperative observer reported doors ripped off barn, heavy equipment rolled over. Numerous branches down.
July 2001HailAshley-Reported by an cooperative observer.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAshley-Reported by an cooperative observer.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Ashley-Nearly stationary, numerous reports from all directions.
June 1998HailAshley-Locations is also 12 west of Forbes (Dickey county), person reported ground white with hail.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAshley-no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindAshley-no account filed
June 2023HailAshley-no account filed
July 2023HailAshley-no account filed
July 2023HailAshley-no account filed
July 2023HailAshley-no account filed
June 2021HailAshley-no account filed
July 2020HailAshley-no account filed
June 2020HailAshley-no account filed
May 2018HailAshley-no account filed
July 2016HailAshley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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
Lowell6.4 miles7
Danzig9.0 miles7
Venturia9.6 miles7
Lehr17.0 miles7
Wishek18.2 miles7
Zeeland24.7 miles7

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 AshleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q725727The 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 1027755. 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.