Montpelier, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Montpelier Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58472. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle. 85 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,365 feet above sea level.
On record in Montpelier
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Stephen William Brown Stone Houselisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresMontpelier fell from 87 to 85 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 | 87 | |
| 2020 | 85 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1896 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Montpelier quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Montpelier in 2012, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 210312 |
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montpelier in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $100,000 | Extensive tree damage occurred with many evergreen and deciduous trees blown down. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $50,000 | Numerous tree limbs were down in Montpelier, some up to four inches in diameter. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | $30,000 | The strong straight line thunderstorm winds resulted in a tree uprooted, a grain bin tipper over, a small wooden building destroyed, and crop damage. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | Wind gusts to 60 mph were reported by a COOP Observer. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | No reports of damage accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | Heavy rain accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | 70 mph winds and very heavy rain. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Montpelier | - | Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Montpelier | - | Pea to golfball size hail accumulated up to a foot in places stripping paint off several buildings. Rainfall with the storm totaled 2.5 inches. The hail also caused 50 to 100 percent loss to 47,000 acres of cropland. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | Several trees 6-8 inches in diameter snapped and 12 foot evergreens bent over. Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | Cooperative observer reported tree's and numerous branches down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | Reported by an cooperative observer. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Montpelier | - | Window's broken at post office. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Tornado (F0) | Montpelier | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Montpelier | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ypsilanti | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Millarton | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Sydney | 9.8 miles | 10 | |
| Kloze | 10.5 miles | 11 | |
| Homer | 11.1 miles | 11 | |
| Reeves | 11.2 miles | 10 | |
| Jamestown Junction | 12.0 miles | 11 | |
| Frontier Village | 14.3 miles | 13 |
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 Montpelier | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2442497 | 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 1030274. 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.




