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.
Population over time
2 figuresInkster 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 38 | -12 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Inkster quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Inkster | $2,000 | A 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Inkster | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Hail | Inkster | - | Half dollar size hail reported. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Inkster | - | Two inch hail reported. |
| June 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Inkster | - | This funnel cloud was viewed from the Grand Forks International Airport. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inkster | - | Several large 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs were broken down in shelterbelts. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inkster | - | An NDAWN sensor measured a 58 mph wind gust. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inkster | - | Several trees were blown over in a shelter belt. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Inkster | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Inkster | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest River Colony | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Orr | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Johnstown | 9.2 miles | 9 | |
| Gilby | 10.3 miles | 9 | |
| McCanna | 10.6 miles | 8 | |
| Honeyford | 12.3 miles | 9 | |
| Shawnee | 14.7 miles | 10 | |
| Hannah Junction | 15.6 miles | 11 |
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 Inkster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2315713 | 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 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.





