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Grace City, North Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Larrabee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58445. The Survey maps it on the Grace City quadrangle. 53 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,512 feet above sea level.

Grace City within Foster County

On record in Grace City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Grace City fell from 63 to 53 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
201063
202053-10 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Grace City between 1994 and 2012, burning about 16 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
Debris and open burning1

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
3 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLONGVIEW TWNSHP GRASS FIRE
21 April 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Totten Agencynot named

Every fire recorded in Foster County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grace City in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2014Thunderstorm WindGrace City$500,000Structural, tree, and crop damage occurred in and around Grace City.
June 2025Tornado (EF1)Grace City$300,000The tornado touched down to the southwest of Grace City, then tracked northeasterly approximately five and three-quarter miles before lifting. Near the point of touchdown, the tornado struck a farmstead causing significant damage. A barn which was built with brick about half-way up then built with wood and sheet metal had the top wooden and sheet metal portion torn off, while an adjacent silo had its top blown off. A pole barn had its roof blown off and another barn had its doors blown off. The tornado then progressed through open fields until it moved through a shelterbelt at a farmstead near the end of its path, where it broke many trees, and twisted off large branches. It also took one large branch and speared it into a camper. Across the road the tornado broke down power lines before it broke in the large door and tore a significant portion off one of the Foster County shop buildings housing a maintainer. Based on the damage done this tornado was rated EF-1, and from that wind speeds were estimated to be around 110 mph.
August 1997HailGrace City-Hail covered ground
August 2021HailGrace City-no account filed
September 2020Thunderstorm WindGrace City-no account filed
August 2016HailGrace City-no account filed
June 2015HailGrace City-no account filed
July 2011HailGrace City-no account filed
July 2007HailGrace City-no account filed
July 2007HailGrace City-no account filed
August 2001Funnel CloudGrace City-no account filed
August 2001HailGrace City-no account filed
August 1996HailGrace City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Foster 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
Juanita7.3 miles8
McHenry11.5 miles8
Bordulac14.1 miles10
Glenfield14.3 miles10
Barlow17.7 miles10
Guptill17.8 miles10
Carrington18.4 miles9
Melville19.3 miles9

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 Grace CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447090The 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 1029191. 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.