Butte, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Butte City. It lies in ZIP code area 58723. The Survey maps it on the Butte quadrangle. 70 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,736 feet above sea level.
On record in Butte
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 1 record
- Semevolos Farmlisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresButte grew from 68 to 70 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 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 70 | +2 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1929 USGS Balfour quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Balfour quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Butte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Drake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Butte between 1999 and 2019, burning about 817 acres in total. 1 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 July 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TARASENKO |
| 6 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Audubon National Wildlife Refuge | BLOMEKE |
| 4 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 700 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CLARENCE HANSON |
| 28 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 38 acres | Audubon National Wildlife Refuge | DOCKTER |
| 29 March 1999 | Natural | 50 acres | Audubon National Wildlife Refuge | DOSSENKO |
| 15 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BAUER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 7 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Butte | - | This is the first event entry for one tornado that passed through two counties, McLean and McHenry. The tornado touched down in an open field south of Butte and impacted no structures before it ended just north of the county line north of Butte. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown). |
| August 2007 | Hail | Butte | - | Crop damage from the hail was reported. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Butte | - | The hail occurred at Strawberry Lake recreational area. |
| September 2024 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Butte | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruso | 14.2 miles | 9 | |
| Benedict | 22.1 miles | 9 | |
| Mercer | 24.1 miles | 6 | |
| Turtle Lake | 25.0 miles | 8 | |
| Max | 33.6 miles | 5 | |
| Riverdale Junction | 35.7 miles | 8 | |
| Coleharbor | 35.9 miles | 9 | |
| Underwood | 36.3 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 Butte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q741135 | 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 1028212. 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.





