Courtenay, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Courtenay City. It lies in ZIP code area 58426. The Survey maps it on the Courtenay quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,529 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCourtenay fell from 45 to 36 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 | 45 | |
| 2020 | 36 | -9 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1900 USGS Pingree quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Courtenay quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Courtenay between 2017 and 2019, burning about 5 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 | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201701 |
| 5 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BALE FIRE IN DITCH |
| 28 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | CHERNEY GRASS FIRE |
| 2 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FALK GRASS FIRE |
| 20 October 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201703 |
Storms near this place
21 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Courtenay in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | $750,000 | Significant damage occurred to buildings and grain handling equipment. Two newer pole-barn buildings had a significant portion of the structure destroyed with collapsed walls and roofs. The damage was primarily on the west side of both buildings, with farm equipment damaged inside. Another large building had multiple roof panels on its east side blown off. Multiple grain bins were damaged, one suffering very significant damage to its roofing structure. A large grain dryer was toppled when the grain leg system collapsed. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | $500,000 | Multiple power poles were broken and power lines were down, resulting in an extended power outage. One indirect death occurred near Courtenay. A 76-year-old man died when the power to his home was cut off during the storm, causing his breathing machine to fail while he slept. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | $300,000 | Multiple large grain bins were either severely damaged or blown off their pads. This location was struck again with another storm on August 8, 2025, causing much more additional damage. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Courtenay | $10,000 | Very heavy rain resulted in flash flooding in this area. Water from runoff was one to two feet deep, especially in lower lying areas. Ground truth reports of 2.50 to three inches were received from the Kensal to Wimbledon area. There were no reports of damage to buildings. Repairs were needed to some minor roads. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | $10,000 | strong winds tore roof off of pig barn. roof was blown 100 feet away. No livestock were injured. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | Heavy rain and pea size hail accompanied the strong winds. There was crop damage reported. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Courtenay | - | Reported by an cooperative observer. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | Tree damage reported by an cooperative observer. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Courtenay | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Courtenay | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spiritwood Lake | 10.1 miles | 10 | |
| Durupt | 10.1 miles | 8 | |
| Kensal | 10.4 miles | 10 | |
| Fried | 13.1 miles | 12 | |
| Clementsville | 13.3 miles | 8 | |
| Johnson | 17.0 miles | 11 | |
| Buchanan | 17.7 miles | 13 | |
| Pingree | 18.5 miles | 12 |
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 Courtenay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2054351 | 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 1028517. 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.





