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Belcourt, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Turtle Mountain unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58316. The Survey maps it on the Belcourt quadrangle. 1,510 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,962 feet above sea level.

Belcourt within Rolette County

Population over time

2 figures

Belcourt fell from 2,078 to 1,510 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
20102,078
20201,510-568 (-27%)

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

2,423 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,423 fires within 5 miles of Belcourt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,306 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 412 were 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 burning946
Missing data/not specified/undetermined737
Arson/incendiarism412
Misuse of fire by a minor119
Fireworks88
Other causes41
Recreation and ceremony32
Equipment and vehicle use28
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Natural4
Smoking3
Firearms and explosives use2

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyBEANS
9 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyBOSTON
9 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyBURN BLACK
9 September 1997Debris and open burning3.4 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyLILLIAN
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyLANCE
8 September 2012Debris and open burning112 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyTRAIL
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencySTINKY
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencySPEEDY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rolette County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Belcourt: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tribal PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rolette County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belcourt in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindBelcourt1 killedTrailer home blown over by straight line winds. Trailer home was not tied down.
February 2011FloodBelcourt$200,000Flooding was the result of a minor early melt dislodging a stop log on a dam upstream of Belcourt along Ox Creek. Contributing to this flooding through Belcourt was the inappropriate disposal of heavy snow from the season into the creek bed. Flooded was a number of homes and the dialysis center at the local hospital. There were 26 Project Worksheets (PW). Estimated damages were $200,000.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBelcourt$125,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged playground equipment, knocked over some trees, severely damaged a home, blew a shed down, and pushed two dumpsters.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBelcourt$50,000Part of a porch was torn from a home, and several tepees were blown away. This event was a gustnado based on the wind being ahead of the thunderstorm, likely along the gust front, and video showing the feature was not connected to the cloud base. Per NWS directives, gustnadoes are recorded as thunderstorm wind events, not as tornadoes, in StormData.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBelcourt$25,000One semi-trailer was blown over and a spruce tree was uprooted. Some tin from a pole barn style building also blew off.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBelcourt$20,000A couple of properties north of Belcourt suffered wind damage. Roofing materials were partially lost on a home. Outbuildings were damaged, along with lawn decorations. Some tree branches were broken.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBelcourt$5,000Numerous tree branches were reported down.
June 2003HailBelcourt-Hail covered the ground.
May 1999Flash FloodBelcourt-highway 5 under water.
September 2024HailBelcourt-no account filed
September 2024HailBelcourt-no account filed
June 2023HailBelcourt-no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBelcourt-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBelcourt-no account filed
July 2015HailBelcourt-no account filed
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBelcourt-no account filed
July 2005Flash FloodBelcourt-no account filed
June 2004HailBelcourt-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBelcourt-no account filed
July 2002HailBelcourt-no account filed
August 2001HailBelcourt-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindBelcourt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rolette 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
Rolla6.8 miles7
Shell Valley7.0 miles9
Saint John7.5 miles7
Thorne12.1 miles7
Rolette13.3 miles7
East Dunseith14.5 miles9
Mylo15.6 miles7
San Haven15.6 miles9

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 BelcourtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2126540The 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 1027873. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.