Max, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the North Central McLean unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58759. The Survey maps it on the Max quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,093 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMax fell from 334 to 331 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 | 334 | |
| 2020 | 331 | -3 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Max quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
37 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Max in 37 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 28 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Max | $100,000 | Large hail accompanied the strong winds with damage to roofs and windows. Trees in Max were damaged. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Max | $60,000 | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Max | $10,000 | Windows were broken. |
| August 2010 | Lightning | Max | $4,000 | Lightning struck a car resulting in the air bags being deployed and other damage. A person in the car suffered minor injuries. Time and placement of this event is based on a newspaper article and archived radar data. It is estimated. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Max | $3,000 | Newspaper reported slight damage to house and a field of grain. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Max | - | Wind gusts estimated by a trained spotter. |
| August 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Max | - | A storm chaser reported this brief tornado. Other reports included very minor damage in the form of tree branches broken. The reports of minor damage led to the EF0 rating. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Max | - | There was no damage reported. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Max | - | Tornado hit no structures and did no damage as it remained over rangeland. The tornado completely lifted and then the parent thunderstorm produced a second tornado 35 minutes later in Ward County. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Max | - | Damage confined to a broken windshield. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Max | - | Highway Patrol reported visibility reduced to near zero in very heavy rain. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Max | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Max | - | Law inforcement official reported hail was piled up like snow. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Max | - | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Max | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Max | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Max | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benedict | 11.5 miles | 9 | |
| Garrison | 13.2 miles | 8 | |
| Ruso | 19.4 miles | 9 | |
| Coleharbor | 19.5 miles | 9 | |
| Emmet | 22.3 miles | 6 | |
| Riverdale | 22.7 miles | 7 | |
| Riverdale Junction | 23.2 miles | 8 | |
| Underwood | 26.6 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 Max | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2446778 | 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 1030122. 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.


