Driscoll, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Driscoll Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58532. The Survey maps it on the Driscoll quadrangle. 68 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,867 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDriscoll fell from 82 to 68 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 | 82 | |
| 2020 | 68 | -14 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Driscoll quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Driscoll quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Driscoll in 2008, burning about 700 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 700 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KIDDER COUNTY LINE |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Driscoll: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Getz Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
30 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Driscoll in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Driscoll | $250,000 | Very heavy rain of 2.50 inches fell in 30 minutes time 7 miles south of Driscoll. A total of 4.50 inches of rain was measured 2 miles northeast of Driscoll. Water was reportedly standing everywhere and water covered roads including in the city of Driscoll. Several roads were washed out. Water was up to 4 inches deep in some homes basements in Driscoll. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | $200,000 | A farmstead one mile west of Driscoll sustained damage to two outbuildings. Tree damage was evident from just north of Driscoll, northward to Arena. A farmstead five miles south of Arena had one outbuilding damaged. The damage was indicative of severe thunderstorm straight line winds up to 85 miles per hour. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | $150,000 | Two barns along with a pole structure building were destroyed. |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Driscoll | $75,000 | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Driscoll | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Driscoll | $30,000 | Around five inches of rain caused flash flooding across county and township roads in southeast Burleigh County, washing some out. There was also crop damage. Flash flooding also occurred across the county line into southwest Kidder County. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Driscoll | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Driscoll | - | The tornado touched down in an open field north of Driscoll and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown). |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | - | Nickel size hail accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Heavy Rain | Driscoll | - | Waves of thunderstorms moved through with a storm total rainfall measured at 3.5 inches. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Driscoll | - | Hail up to the size of quarters lasted for just under 30 minutes. There were no reports of damage. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | - | Several trees blown down along with several limbs snapped off trees. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Driscoll | - | Tornado briefly touched down in open country. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | - | Reports of several tree's down and numerous branches broken off. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Driscoll | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Driscoll | - | 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 Driscoll | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4136365 | 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 1028725. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




