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Jessie, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tyrol Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58452. The Survey maps it on the Jessie quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.

Jessie within Griggs County

Population over time

2 figures

Jessie fell from 25 to 22 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
201025
202022-3 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jessie between 2008 and 2013, burning about 310 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 May 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePEKIN FIRE
13 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMATT HELM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Griggs County

Storms near this place

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jessie in 28 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindJessie-Multiple tree branches down and one large tree down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJessie-Received a report of a 68 mph wind gust as measured on a personal weather station. Location was 4 miles NW of Cooperstown.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJessie-Received a public report of an uprooted tree via social media.
August 2021Tornado (EF0)Jessie-A brief touchdown was noted and recorded on video between 834 and 835 pm CDT. The touchdown occurred over an open field as the storm quickly became ran wrapped. Additional brief touchdown may have occurred later in the east-northeastward path.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJessie-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindJessie-Large branches were blown down in a farm yard and a shed door was torn off.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindJessie-Tree branches were blown down by the wind.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindJessie-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
September 2017HailJessie-Occasional nickel to ping pong ball sized hail fell in very heavy rain across southeast Lenora Township.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJessie-Numerous large tree branches and limbs were broken down across eastern Addie and western Tyrol townships.
August 2011Heavy RainJessie-About 3.50 inches of rain fell over the course of about 45 minutes.
May 2007HailJessie-Enough hail fell to cover the ground.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindJessie-Large evergreens were blown over in town. Other trees fell on homes and streets.
June 2020Funnel CloudJessie-no account filed
June 2020HailJessie-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindJessie-no account filed
July 2017HailJessie-no account filed
July 2016HailJessie-no account filed
May 2007HailJessie-no account filed
April 2005HailJessie-no account filed
June 2005HailJessie-no account filed
June 2005HailJessie-no account filed
September 2005HailJessie-no account filed
May 2004HailJessie-no account filed
May 2004HailJessie-no account filed
May 2004HailJessie-no account filed
June 2001HailJessie-no account filed
June 2000Flash FloodJessie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Griggs 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
Binford5.8 miles8
Cooperstown9.1 miles9
Mose11.8 miles8
Shepard11.9 miles9
Mardell (historical)13.5 miles9
Revere13.7 miles8
Sutton14.4 miles8
Hannaford16.0 miles8

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 JessieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4138616The 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 1029659. 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.