Epping, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Epping City. It lies in ZIP code area 58843. The Survey maps it on the Epping quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,215 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEpping fell from 100 to 84 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 | 100 | |
| 2020 | 84 | -16 (-16%) |
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.
- 1911 USGS Ray quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Epping quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Williston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Epping in 2019, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | HESS LOCATION |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Epping in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 12 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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 | Hail | Epping | $50,000 | The large hail resulted in borken windows in the town of Epping. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epping | $3,000 | Large tree branches were broken down by the thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epping | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Epping | - | North Dakota Department of Transportation webcam in Ray showed a funnel cloud west of Ray. There were no reports indicating this funnel cloud reached the surface. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Epping | - | Reported as a tornado but no tornado or funnel cloud reported. Damage and eye witness reports suggest a very strong downburst wind. A line of 85 empty rail cars were tipped over between Epping and Wheelock. There was also some damage to a grain elevator and a blacksmith shop in Epping. A farmer lost the roof off a barn 2 miles southeast of Epping. Wind speeds of 98 kts (113 mph) have the force necessary to tip over box cars according to the Fujita scale. |
| July 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Epping | - | Tornado destroyed a barn. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Epping | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Epping | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheelock | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Spring Brook | 5.7 miles | 7 | |
| Avoca | 11.0 miles | 6 | |
| Ray | 11.1 miles | 7 | |
| Long Creek | 13.3 miles | 7 | |
| Lunds Landing | 13.9 miles | 7 | |
| Lake Jessie | 15.1 miles | 7 | |
| Williston | 16.6 miles | 6 |
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 Epping | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2310156 | 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 1028896. 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.




