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Cannon Ball, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Sioux unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58528. It lies near Twin Buttes. The Survey maps it on the Cannon Ball quadrangle. 864 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,752 feet above sea level.

Cannon Ball within Sioux County

Population over time

2 figures

Cannon Ball fell from 875 to 864 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
2010875
2020864-11 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

527 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 527 fires within 5 miles of Cannon Ball between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,208 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 105 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined155
Arson/incendiarism105
Debris and open burning87
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Equipment and vehicle use44
Fireworks41
Recreation and ceremony16
Other causes15
Natural11
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2010Arson/incendiarism34 acresStanding Rock AgencySAINT
8 September 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyNORTHCHURC
7 September 2018Natural2.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyFOOL BEAR CREEK
7 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyRIVER VIEW
7 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyLITTLE HILL
7 September 2012Arson/incendiarism15 acresStanding Rock AgencyCORN FIELD
7 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyGEIGER
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyCANNONBALL CHURCH

Every fire recorded in Sioux County

Storms near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannon Ball in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2010HailCannon Ball2 hurt, $1,500,000A North Dakota state record tying hailstone of five inches in diameter fell at Prairie Knights Casino and Resort. The resort, and all vehicles outside, sustained severe damage from the extreme hail. One of these large hail stones crashed through the windshield of a car, injuring the two occupants. This tied the record size five inch diameter hailstone in Mercer County on August 3, 1969.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCannon Ball1 hurt, $80,000One person was injured and hospitalized as three mobile homes were blown over and damage was sustained to one permanent home.
July 2010HailCannon Ball$750,000This was the first of three waves of very large hail to impact the city of Cannon Ball during this episode. Severe damage to vehicles, homes, and crops occurred.
July 2010HailCannon Ball$100,000This was the second wave of very large hail to impact Cannon Ball during this episode, resulting in further damage to homes, vehicles, and crops.
July 2010HailCannon Ball$50,000This was the third wave of large hail to impact the city of Cannon Ball during this episode.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindCannon Ball$24,000Multiple power poles broke down in the area.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCannon Ball$2,000Some road signs were blown down by the severe wind gusts.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindCannon Ball-Pole barns destroyed.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCannon Ball-no account filed
September 2025HailCannon Ball-no account filed
May 2016HailCannon Ball-no account filed
July 2016HailCannon Ball-no account filed
June 2015HailCannon Ball-no account filed
June 2015HailCannon Ball-no account filed
August 2013HailCannon Ball-no account filed
June 2012HailCannon Ball-no account filed
August 2002HailCannon Ball-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sioux 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
Solen10.8 miles5
Fort Yates21.0 miles5
Chadwick28.2 miles5
Porcupine29.2 miles5
Selfridge29.7 miles5

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 Cannon BallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2397516The 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 1028270. 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.