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Inkster, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Inkster City. It lies in ZIP code area 58244. The Survey maps it on the Inkster quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Inkster within Grand Forks County

Population over time

2 figures

Inkster fell from 50 to 38 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
201050
202038-12 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inkster in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Tornado (EF0)Inkster$2,000A persistent funnel cloud intermittently touched down northeast of Inkster. The tornado damaged large tree branches at one farmstead and in other shelterbelts. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.
June 2016Flash FloodInkster$2,000no account filed
July 2025HailInkster-Half dollar size hail reported.
July 2025HailInkster-Two inch hail reported.
June 2015Funnel CloudInkster-This funnel cloud was viewed from the Grand Forks International Airport.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindInkster-Several large 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs were broken down in shelterbelts.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindInkster-An NDAWN sensor measured a 58 mph wind gust.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindInkster-Several trees were blown over in a shelter belt.
June 2006HailInkster-no account filed
June 2006HailInkster-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindInkster-no account filed
May 2001HailInkster-no account filed
July 2001HailInkster-no account filed
July 1999HailInkster-no account filed
July 1999HailInkster-no account filed
August 1997HailInkster-no account filed
August 1997HailInkster-no account filed
June 1996HailInkster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Forks 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
Forest River Colony3.8 miles8
Orr4.3 miles8
Johnstown9.2 miles9
Gilby10.3 miles9
McCanna10.6 miles8
Honeyford12.3 miles9
Shawnee14.7 miles10
Hannah Junction15.6 miles11

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 InksterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2315713The 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 1029619. 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.