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.
Population over time
2 figuresJessie 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | |
| 2020 | 22 | -3 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Jessie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Stump Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional 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/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 May 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PEKIN FIRE |
| 13 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MATT HELM |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
28 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | Multiple tree branches down and one large tree down. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | Received a report of a 68 mph wind gust as measured on a personal weather station. Location was 4 miles NW of Cooperstown. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | Received a public report of an uprooted tree via social media. |
| August 2021 | Tornado (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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | Large branches were blown down in a farm yard and a shed door was torn off. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | Tree branches were blown down by the wind. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| September 2017 | Hail | Jessie | - | Occasional nickel to ping pong ball sized hail fell in very heavy rain across southeast Lenora Township. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | Numerous large tree branches and limbs were broken down across eastern Addie and western Tyrol townships. |
| August 2011 | Heavy Rain | Jessie | - | About 3.50 inches of rain fell over the course of about 45 minutes. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Jessie | - | Enough hail fell to cover the ground. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | Large evergreens were blown over in town. Other trees fell on homes and streets. |
| June 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Jessie | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Jessie | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binford | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Cooperstown | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Mose | 11.8 miles | 8 | |
| Shepard | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Mardell (historical) | 13.5 miles | 9 | |
| Revere | 13.7 miles | 8 | |
| Sutton | 14.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hannaford | 16.0 miles | 8 |
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 Jessie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4138616 | 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 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.




