Crary, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Stevens Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58327. The Survey maps it on the Crary quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,486 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCrary fell from 142 to 113 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 | 142 | |
| 2020 | 113 | -29 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1951 USGS Crary quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Crary quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Crary between 1999 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
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 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-8 |
| 13 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ROHR |
| 11 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | PIT |
| 1 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | POO |
| 6 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SOUTH |
| 3 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MAHONEY |
| 29 May 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | DOYLE PARK 1 |
| 26 May 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | TRASH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crary in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | $20,000 | Several large 12 to 14 inch diameter trees were blown down along East Bay and Black Tiger Bay of Devils Lake. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | $500 | Tree branches were blown down. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Crary | - | Report relayed via broadcast media. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | - | Peak wind measured at an NDAWN station at 3 meters. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN wind sensor. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | - | The wind gust was measured by the Crary NDAWN station. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| September 2015 | Hail | Crary | - | Very heavy rain and occasional large hail fell along Highway 2, about three miles east of the Crary rest area. |
| August 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Crary | - | This tornado originated 4 miles north-northeast of Tokio in Benson County at 1318 CST. The tornado crossed from Black Tiger Bay in Benson County and continued into the open waters of Devils Lake in Ramsey County (to about 7.5 miles southwest of Crary by 1321 CST). The tornado was viewed by campers at the south end of Black Tiger Bay. Total path length was about 1.5 miles, with about 0.5 miles of the tornado occurring in Ramsey County. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | - | An NDAWN mesonet sensor reported the wind gust. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crary | - | 58 mph winds were measured by a NDAWN mesonet station. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Crary | - | The tornado was located south of US Highway 2. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Crary | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Crary | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Crary | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Crary | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Crary | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Crary | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Crary | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rohrville | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Doyon | 5.5 miles | 7 | |
| Keith | 6.2 miles | 14 | |
| Essex | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Southam | 7.6 miles | 7 | |
| Bartlett | 11.1 miles | 7 | |
| Devils Lake | 12.9 miles | 14 | |
| Camp Grafton | 15.0 miles | 14 |
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 Crary | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q631196 | 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 1028528. 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.





