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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.

Courtenay within Stutsman County

Population over time

2 figures

Courtenay 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.

YearPeople Change
201045
202036-9 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

5 since 2017

Regional 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 burning5

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
9 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201701
5 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBALE FIRE IN DITCH
28 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCHERNEY GRASS FIRE
2 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFALK GRASS FIRE
20 October 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service201703

Every fire recorded in Stutsman County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay$750,000Significant 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 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay$500,000Multiple 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 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay$300,000Multiple 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 2011Flash FloodCourtenay$10,000Very 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 1997Thunderstorm WindCourtenay$10,000strong winds tore roof off of pig barn. roof was blown 100 feet away. No livestock were injured.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-Heavy rain and pea size hail accompanied the strong winds. There was crop damage reported.
August 2001HailCourtenay-Reported by an cooperative observer.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-Tree damage reported by an cooperative observer.
June 2025HailCourtenay-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
May 2019HailCourtenay-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindCourtenay-no account filed
September 2018HailCourtenay-no account filed
June 2017HailCourtenay-no account filed
July 2000HailCourtenay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stutsman 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
Spiritwood Lake10.1 miles10
Durupt10.1 miles8
Kensal10.4 miles10
Fried13.1 miles12
Clementsville13.3 miles8
Johnson17.0 miles11
Buchanan17.7 miles13
Pingree18.5 miles12

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 CourtenayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2054351The 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.