Casselton, North Dakota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Casselton City. It lies in ZIP code area 58012. The Survey maps it on the Casselton quadrangle. 2,479 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 935 feet above sea level.
On record in Casselton
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
Casselton Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1982- St. Stephen's Episcopal Churchlisted 1992
Population over time
2 figuresCasselton grew from 2,329 to 2,479 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 | 2,329 | |
| 2020 | 2,479 | +150 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Casselton between 2018 and 2019, burning about 2 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 burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CASSELTON RIFLE RANGE |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 05-15-2019-2 |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 26 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 04/26/19 BRUSH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
49 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casselton in 49 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 23 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Casselton | $500,000 | After 3 to 5 inches of rain fell on the Casselton area, flash flooding occurred. Roughly 40 percent of the homes sustained some sort of water damage, which equated to about 200 homes. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | $20,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Casselton | $5,000 | The North Dakota Highway Patrol and North Dakota DOT personnel closed Interstate 94 at the Casselton exit due to water flowing across all four lanes. Traffic was detoured across the exit ramps until flood waters had subsided. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | $2,000 | Several trees around town were blown down. |
| September 2014 | Flash Flood | Casselton | $1,000 | Several bouts of heavy rain flooded Interstate 94 near the Casselton railroad bridge. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Casselton | $1,000 | Water flowed over several sections of county and township roads in southern and central Harmony township. Numerous farm access roads and fields were flooded. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | Report of tree damage across Castleton. Time estimated from radar. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Casselton | - | Delayed report of quarter sized hail. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Casselton | - | Public reports quarter-sized hail in Casselton. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | Peak wind of 60 mph was measured at a personal weather station. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | Large tree branches were blown down around town. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Casselton | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Casselton | - | Dime to nickel sized hail fell. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | Large tree branches were blown down across the northern part of Casselton. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Casselton | - | A wall cloud and rotation passed over the DOT shop, but no funnel cloud or touchdown was observed. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Casselton | - | The hail was mostly one inch in diameter, but there were a few bigger stones. |
| June 2013 | Heavy Rain | Casselton | - | Due to electrical outages, pump failure, and water pooling at the Interstate 94 exit near Casselton, the North Dakota DOT temporarily closed both lanes and detoured traffic over the exit ramps. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Casselton | - | Dime to quarter size hail fell north of Casselton. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | A spotter estimated the winds to be around 75 mph. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | A semi was blown over on Interstate 94 near the Casselton exit. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | The wind speeds were estimated. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | The storm had a well defined shelf cloud with individual leading edge rotation. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | The winds gusted to an estimated sixty to seventy miles per hour. |
| June 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Casselton | - | A persistent wall cloud produced a funnel west of Casselton. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Casselton | - | Water was reported over several sections of county and township roads from Grandin to Casselton and into north central Cass county. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Casselton | - | Penny to nickel sized hail fell at the intersection of Interstate 94 and highway 18. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | Strong winds damaged a construction site at a motel just south of Casselton. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Casselton | - | The large hail produced heavy crop damage across northern portions of Casselton and Harmony Townships. Rainfall amounts ranged from 2 to 3 inches. |
| September 2001 | Flash Flood | Casselton | - | Water was reported over a road. |
| August 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Casselton | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported by the public. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | Wind speed was estimated. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | 12-inch diameter trees and limbs down. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Casselton | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Casselton | - | 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.
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 Casselton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1954719 | 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 1028294. 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.






