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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.

Fortuna within Divide County

Population over time

2 figures

Fortuna 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.

YearPeople Change
201022
202030+8 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 2005

Regional 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/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
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Divide County

Storms near this place

17 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindFortuna$150,000The top of the local grain elevator main annex where the leg was located was blown off, damaging additional parts of the elevator.
August 1997HailFortuna$100,000late 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 2012Thunderstorm WindFortuna$8,000This storm report stated that tree branches up to six inches in diameter were broken off by the strong winds.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFortuna$5,000Shingles were blown off roofs.
July 2009HailFortuna$3,000A vehicle was dented.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFortuna-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindFortuna-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFortuna-In addition to the severe thunderstorm winds, pea size hail was covering the ground.
June 2025HailFortuna-no account filed
June 2016HailFortuna-no account filed
July 2013HailFortuna-no account filed
July 2009HailFortuna-no account filed
June 2008HailFortuna-no account filed
May 2000HailFortuna-no account filed
July 2000HailFortuna-no account filed
June 1999HailFortuna-no account filed
June 1995HailFortuna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Divide 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
Alkabo6.7 miles6
Colgan8.4 miles6
Stady13.6 miles6
Ambrose16.0 miles10
Crosby25.7 miles9
Juno30.5 miles8
Bounty31.7 miles8
Paulson34.3 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 FortunaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447116The 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.