Fortuna, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Fortuna City. It lies in ZIP code area 58844. The Survey maps it on the Fortuna quadrangle. 30 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,211 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFortuna grew from 22 to 30 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 | 22 | |
| 2020 | 30 | +8 (+36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Fortuna quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fortuna in 2005, burning about 250 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
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 Fortuna in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 11 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fortuna | $150,000 | The top of the local grain elevator main annex where the leg was located was blown off, damaging additional parts of the elevator. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Fortuna | $100,000 | late season hail storm moved from Fortuna to Noonan destroying everything in its path. 180 thousand acres of crops were either severely damaged or destroyed. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fortuna | $8,000 | This storm report stated that tree branches up to six inches in diameter were broken off by the strong winds. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fortuna | $5,000 | Shingles were blown off roofs. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Fortuna | $3,000 | A vehicle was dented. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fortuna | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fortuna | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fortuna | - | In addition to the severe thunderstorm winds, pea size hail was covering the ground. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Fortuna | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Fortuna | - | 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 Fortuna | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2447116 | 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 1029028. 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.



