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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.

Butte within McLean County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Butte 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.

YearPeople Change
201068
202070+2 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

6 since 1999

Regional 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTARASENKO
6 May 2019Debris and open burning23 acresAudubon National Wildlife RefugeBLOMEKE
4 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCLARENCE HANSON
28 May 2019Debris and open burning38 acresAudubon National Wildlife RefugeDOCKTER
29 March 1999Natural50 acresAudubon National Wildlife RefugeDOSSENKO
15 November 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBAUER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025Tornado (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 2007HailButte-Crop damage from the hail was reported.
July 2003HailButte-The hail occurred at Strawberry Lake recreational area.
September 2024HailButte-no account filed
August 2023HailButte-no account filed
August 2007HailButte-no account filed
August 2007HailButte-no account filed
May 2003HailButte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Ruso14.2 miles9
Benedict22.1 miles9
Mercer24.1 miles6
Turtle Lake25.0 miles8
Max33.6 miles5
Riverdale Junction35.7 miles8
Coleharbor35.9 miles9
Underwood36.3 miles8

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 ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q741135The 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.