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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.

Montpelier within Stutsman County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Montpelier 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.

YearPeople Change
201087
202085-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2012

Regional 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/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
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service210312

Every fire recorded in Stutsman County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMontpelier$100,000Extensive tree damage occurred with many evergreen and deciduous trees blown down.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMontpelier$50,000Numerous tree limbs were down in Montpelier, some up to four inches in diameter.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMontpelier$30,000The strong straight line thunderstorm winds resulted in a tree uprooted, a grain bin tipper over, a small wooden building destroyed, and crop damage.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Wind gusts to 60 mph were reported by a COOP Observer.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-No reports of damage accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Heavy rain accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-70 mph winds and very heavy rain.
July 2005HailMontpelier-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
June 2003HailMontpelier-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 2003Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Several trees 6-8 inches in diameter snapped and 12 foot evergreens bent over. Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Cooperative observer reported tree's and numerous branches down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Reported by an cooperative observer.
August 1999HailMontpelier-Window's broken at post office.
July 2022HailMontpelier-no account filed
August 2011HailMontpelier-no account filed
August 2011HailMontpelier-no account filed
July 2008HailMontpelier-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-no account filed
May 2004HailMontpelier-no account filed
July 2003HailMontpelier-no account filed
July 2003HailMontpelier-no account filed
July 2003HailMontpelier-no account filed
June 2001HailMontpelier-no account filed
July 2001HailMontpelier-no account filed
August 1999Tornado (F0)Montpelier-no account filed
August 1994HailMontpelier-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stutsman 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
Ypsilanti5.8 miles10
Millarton9.3 miles10
Sydney9.8 miles10
Kloze10.5 miles11
Homer11.1 miles11
Reeves11.2 miles10
Jamestown Junction12.0 miles11
Frontier Village14.3 miles13

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 MontpelierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2442497The 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.