Elliott, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Elliott Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58054. The Survey maps it on the Elliott quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,332 feet above sea level.

Elliott within Ransom County

Population over time

2 figures

Elliott fell from 25 to 24 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	25
2020	24	-1 (-4%)

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.

1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Elliott quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Elliott between 2015 and 2018, burning about 932 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 burning	6
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
7 May 2018	Debris and open burning	640 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HUETHER FIRE
3 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-050317
23 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HANSEN TREE FIRE
3 April 2015	Debris and open burning	85 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SCHWAB
16 April 2015	Debris and open burning	55 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WALTON
6 October 2015	Debris and open burning	130 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	LYONS FIRE
12 October 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	OLSON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ransom County

Storms near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elliott in 14 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2010	Tornado (EF1)	Elliott	$1,000,000	This tornado was embedded in a squall line which also produced large hail and a wide swath of damaging downburst winds. the most extreme tornado damage was observed at two farmsteads northwest of elliot and in the town of elliot where wooden quonset structures and large steel grain bins were violently crumpled and tossed in various directions. Peak winds estimated to 105 mph.
August 2016	Flash Flood	Elliott	$5,000	Farm and field access roads were flooded by persistent heavy rainfall. Ditches and culverts ran full. An observer measured 6.80 inches of rain over a 36 hour period.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Elliott	$5,000	North Dakota Highway 32 was closed between Gwinner and Lisbon at Dead Colt Creek.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Elliott	$200	Trees were downed in the strong wind.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Elliott	-	Roof panels were blown off the gable end of a Cenex storage building.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Elliott	-	Strong winds caused minor roof damage and knocked down two large trees.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Elliott	-	Several sections of cropland across southern Bale Township were heavily damaged by downburst winds and wind driven hail. Several farmsteads were affected, with a machine shed and a pole barn completely destroyed. One tractor was tipped on its side and a half dozen power poles were snapped. Several large steel grain bins were crushed while numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. Widespread downburst winds of up to 115 mph were estimated at some locales.
July 2011	Funnel Cloud	Elliott	-	A brief funnel cloud was observed south of Elliott, before it became obscured by rain.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Elliott	-	A few large tree branches were broken down around town.
May 2007	Flood	Elliott	-	Thirty-two locations in Elliott township (southwest of Lisbon) were covered with water. Two other townships reported over 30 roads (each) with water over them. Many road closures occurred along the Dead Colt Creek south of Lisbon. At one point, the Ransom County Sheriff advised no travel in rural areas.
May 2007	Flash Flood	Elliott	-	Many roads in Elliott township and along the Dead Colt Creek south of Lisbon were flooded by the heavy rain.
August 2020	Funnel Cloud	Elliott	-	no account filed
April 2007	Hail	Elliott	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Elliott	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ransom 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Englevale	5.3 miles	7
Lisbon	7.6 miles	7
Brockway (historical)	7.8 miles	7
Wisner (historical)	8.2 miles	10
Fort Ransom	10.1 miles	10
Buttzville	12.2 miles	10
Enderlin	19.0 miles	10
Anselm	19.0 miles	12

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 Elliott	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q771127	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 1028852. 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.