Gardner, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Gardner City. It lies in ZIP code area 58036. The Survey maps it on the Gardner quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 886 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGardner grew from 74 to 129 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 | 74 | |
| 2020 | 129 | +55 (+74%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Gardner quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Ada quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gardner between 2016 and 2020, burning about 2 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 | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1604008 |
| 19 October 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 167TH AVE. SE & 19TH ST. SE, GARDNER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gardner in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2003 | Hail | Gardner | $1,250,000 | Wind driven hail caused partial crop damage over about 20 sections of farmland. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | $534,000 | Three 80,000 bushel steel grain bins were caved in at the Gardner elevator complex. A small wooden barn was destroyed. Large trees were also blown down all over town. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | $67,000 | A 40x80 foot barn roof collapsed and other farm buildings were damaged. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | $40,000 | A 30x60 foot pole barn roof was blown off, while the structure was totalled. |
| May 2024 | Flood | Gardner | $500 | Fargo Gage, on the Red River. Crested at 22.20 ft on May 27th at 10:45 am. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | NDAWN station at Gardner 2SSW measured a wind gust of 79 mph. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Gardner | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | Reports of several 8 to 10 foot trees broken at the trunk during strong winds. Hail up to dime sized was reported. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Gardner | - | The hail fell in northwest Wiser Township. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Gardner | - | The hail was mostly pea to dime size. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | Mounted transmitter and receiver platforms on a cellular communications tower were damaged by the strong winds. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | Numerous large tree branches were broken down in farmstead shelterbelts across southern Gardner and Gunkel townships. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Gardner | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with brief heavy rain. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Gardner | - | Small branches were blown down in a yard and lawn furniture was scattered about. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | Several large tree branches were broken down in a shelterbelt. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | One eight inch diameter tree and numerous tree limbs were snapped in a shelterbelt. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | A semi truck was overturned on Interstate 29 near mile post 88. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Gardner | - | The observer reported 2.75 inches of rain. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Gardner | - | Pea to penny sized hail was reported. |
| May 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Gardner | - | The tornado was reported by a motorist. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gardner | - | Several shingles were blown off a roof. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Gardner | - | no account filed |
| September 1994 | Hail | Gardner | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandin | 6.4 miles | 9 | |
| Argusville | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Brooktree Park | 10.7 miles | 9 | |
| Harwood | 12.5 miles | 24 | |
| Newman | 12.8 miles | 13 | |
| Prosper | 13.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hunter | 13.5 miles | 8 | |
| Arthur | 13.6 miles | 8 |
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 Gardner | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229719 | 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 1029081. 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.




