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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.

Driscoll within Burleigh County

Population over time

2 figures

Driscoll 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.

YearPeople Change
201082
202068-14 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2008

Regional 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/undetermined1

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
16 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined700 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKIDDER COUNTY LINE

Every fire recorded in Burleigh County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Getz Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Burleigh County

Storms near this place

30 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2007Flash FloodDriscoll$250,000Very 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 2010Thunderstorm WindDriscoll$200,000A 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 2020Thunderstorm WindDriscoll$150,000Two barns along with a pole structure building were destroyed.
June 1999Tornado (F1)Driscoll$75,000no account filed
June 2016HailDriscoll$50,000no account filed
August 2014Flash FloodDriscoll$30,000Around 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 2016HailDriscoll$15,000no account filed
September 2025Tornado (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 2014Thunderstorm WindDriscoll-Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindDriscoll-Heavy rain accompanied the strong winds.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindDriscoll-Nickel size hail accompanied the strong winds.
July 2011Heavy RainDriscoll-Waves of thunderstorms moved through with a storm total rainfall measured at 3.5 inches.
July 2008HailDriscoll-Hail up to the size of quarters lasted for just under 30 minutes. There were no reports of damage.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindDriscoll-Several trees blown down along with several limbs snapped off trees.
May 2001Tornado (F0)Driscoll-Tornado briefly touched down in open country.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindDriscoll-Reports of several tree's down and numerous branches broken off.
June 2022HailDriscoll-no account filed
August 2016HailDriscoll-no account filed
August 2016HailDriscoll-no account filed
June 2013HailDriscoll-no account filed
June 2012HailDriscoll-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindDriscoll-no account filed
August 2012HailDriscoll-no account filed
July 2011HailDriscoll-no account filed
May 2010Thunderstorm WindDriscoll-no account filed
July 2008HailDriscoll-no account filed
June 1999HailDriscoll-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Driscoll-no account filed
August 1997HailDriscoll-no account filed
August 1997HailDriscoll-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burleigh 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
Sterling8.2 miles7
Moffit14.0 miles5
McKenzie14.5 miles7
Brittin16.6 miles5
Arena19.6 miles6
Menoken20.7 miles10
Wing21.7 miles6
Apple Valley24.2 miles10

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 DriscollAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4136365The 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.