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Ellendale, North Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ellendale City. It lies in ZIP code area 58436. The Survey maps it on the Ellendale North quadrangle. 1,125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

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Ellendale within Dickey County

On record in Ellendale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ellendale fell from 1,394 to 1,125 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
20101,394
20201,125-269 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ellendale between 2016 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 July 2016Natural8.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBILLEY
18 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWHEELIHAN
6 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service281 FIRE
23 May 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBLUMHARDT
5 November 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMERKEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickey 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 Ellendale: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Redland PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dickey County

Storms near this place

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellendale in 48 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 23 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEllendale$1,000,000Extensive damage occurred throughout the city of Ellendale and surrounding areas. In Ellendale, many hardwood trees were snapped and others were uprooted, some falling onto homes. A home had almost all the shingles and much of the sheathing torn off the roof, and the garage door was collapsed inward. Some power poles were broken in town, and several power service lines to homes were torn. South of Ellendale to the South Dakota state line, multiple power poles were snapped. At the Ellendale Cemetery, multiple hardwood and softwood trees were snapped and others were uprooted. In parts of Ellendale, ping pong ball size hail accompanied the storm.
July 1999Tornado (F2)Ellendale$800,000One half mile debris from 3 mobile homes. Large trees uprooted. 70kt winds reported with storm.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindEllendale$450,000NWS storm survey completed on Monday, June 18, and confirmed the findings of emergency management officials, that very high thunderstorm winds and not a tornado caused the damage in Dickey County. Over most of the wind damage area the damage was consistent with wind speeds of 70 mph. However, in an area inside the city limits of Ellendale, from the elevator toward the northeast, damage was consistent with wind speeds of 85 mph. Damage was mainly to trees throughout the area and to grain bins in the immediate Ellendale area, along with a few power lines and a cell phone communications tower. Part of the elevator was completely toppled onto the street below. Note that some of the large diameter trees uprooted in Ellendale would have been consistent with 90 or 95 mph winds, and that speeds were reduced due to saturated soils. The area had received 16.7 inches of rain since March 1. There were no deaths or injuries.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEllendale$150,000A 130 foot by 300 foot pole barn structure sustained substantial damage from straight line winds. Almost all of the roofing structure collapsed, along with portions of the walls. The debris was spread to the north of the structure.
May 2007Flash FloodEllendale$100,000Reported rainfall ammounts up to 5 inches caused street flooding, basement flooding, and water standing in fields.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEllendale$85,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts overturned several grain bins and destroyed them. Tree limbs were broken and crops were damaged.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEllendale$50,000Numerous tree damage was reported in the city of Ellendale due to the severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2013Flash FloodEllendale$20,000Fast moving water damaged roads and shoulders. Two County roads were closed. Rain reports ranged from 2.72 inches to nearly five inches.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindEllendale$15,000Some limbs were blown off a few trees, and an old tree blew over and damaged a power pole.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindEllendale$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in roof damage.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindEllendale$10,000A second wave of severe thunderstorm wind gusts caused damage to trees in the city of Ellendale.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindEllendale$4,000Estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 75 miles per hour blew down a tree one foot in diameter, and also snapped three inch in diameter branches.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindEllendale$3,000Numerous small tree limbs were blown down by the strong winds.
July 2025HailEllendale-Crops in the area were damaged by the hail.
July 2022HailEllendale-Crops were damaged by the hail.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindEllendale-A twelve inch in diameter tree limb was blown down.
June 2011Heavy RainEllendale-A 24 hour rainfall of 2.65 inches was reported.
May 2008HailEllendale-Law enforcement also reported rotation in the thunderstorm west of Oakes.
August 2006HailEllendale-Dickey County Sheriff deputy report.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEllendale-Quarter inch hail accompanied the high winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindEllendale-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEllendale-Cooperative observer reported shingles stripped off house. Tree's down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindEllendale-Numerous tree's and branches down in the city of Ellendale. A 90,000 bushel bin at Monango was ripped down and two 2400-bushel hopper bins were damaged. One was tipped over on its side.
August 2020HailEllendale-no account filed
June 2020HailEllendale-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed
August 2016Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed
August 2016HailEllendale-no account filed
August 2016HailEllendale-no account filed
August 2016HailEllendale-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed
July 2011HailEllendale-no account filed
May 2010HailEllendale-no account filed
April 2007HailEllendale-no account filed
July 2007HailEllendale-no account filed
August 2006HailEllendale-no account filed
May 2005HailEllendale-no account filed
June 2002HailEllendale-no account filed
June 2002HailEllendale-no account filed
June 2002HailEllendale-no account filed
September 2001HailEllendale-no account filed
July 2000HailEllendale-no account filed
June 1998HailEllendale-no account filed
June 1998HailEllendale-no account filed
June 1998HailEllendale-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindEllendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickey 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
Duane4.9 miles12
Maple River Colony6.7 miles13
Silverleaf7.8 miles13
Boynton10.6 miles12
Monango12.3 miles12
Keystone (historical)12.4 miles12
Fullerton12.4 miles13
Forbes14.1 miles8

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 EllendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959555The 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 1028850. 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.