BlockGrenora, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Grenora City. It lies in ZIP code area 58845. The Survey maps it on the Grenora quadrangle. 221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,123 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGrenora fell from 244 to 221 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 | 244 | |
| 2020 | 221 | -23 (-9%) |
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.
- 1948 USGS Grenora quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grenora in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2014 | Flood | Grenora | $100,000 | Radar estimated three to five inches of rain in parts of northwest Williams and Divide counties. Damage was reported to culverts and roads. Deep water was standing in farm yards but the National Weather Service received no reports of water in homes. Crops were damaged. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Grenora | $45,000 | Several culverts were washed out along with flooding at an oil drilling site. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenora | $15,000 | A cattle wind break eight feet high was flattened and a wooden calf shelter was destroyed. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenora | $8,000 | A twenty foot tall elm tree was knocked down. |
| July 2017 | Funnel Cloud | Grenora | - | A short-lived funnel cloud was reported. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Grenora | - | Wind gusts to 50 miles per hour accompanied the large hail. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenora | - | Very heavy rain accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Grenora | - | Mostly pea sized hail. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Grenora | - | Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Grenora | - | Numerous tree branches down in town |
| June 2025 | Hail | Grenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Grenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Grenora | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Grenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Grenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Grenora | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Grenora | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Grenora | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanks | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Gladys | 10.5 miles | 5 | |
| Zahl | 13.4 miles | 6 | |
| Bonetraill | 14.9 miles | 5 | |
| West Bonetraill | 14.9 miles | 5 | |
| Blacktail | 16.6 miles | 5 | |
| Appam | 18.8 miles | 6 | |
| Marmon | 21.9 miles | 5 |
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 Grenora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2310170 | 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 1029242. 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.
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.