Mountain, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mountain City. It lies in ZIP code area 58262. The Survey maps it on the Mountain quadrangle. 80 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,066 feet above sea level.
On record in Mountain
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
Vikur Lutheran Church at Mountainlisted 2013
Population over time
2 figuresMountain fell from 92 to 80 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 | 92 | |
| 2020 | 80 | -12 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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 Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Mountain quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mountain between 2017 and 2020, burning about 8 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2018 | Natural | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LINDSEY FIRE |
| 28 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MARTINS FIRE |
| 31 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2002 |
| 29 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2020-01593 |
| 26 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 1 |
| 9 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2020-05056 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain | $500,000 | Numerous large tree branches and limbs were broken down or snapped across much of Thingvalla Township. Sheet metal roofing and shingles were blown off buildings in various locations. |
| June 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Mountain | $200,000 | This tornado snapped trees in shelterbelts and demolished a pole shed at a farmstead. In addition, shingles and roofing materials were peeled from various buildings and a television antenna was bent over. Debris was spread downstream and over a wide arc to the north and northwest by the east-southeast moving storm. Peak winds were estimated at 110 mph. |
| July 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Mountain | $1,000 | A tornado touched down briefly in a farm yard and tracked southeastward into open pastureland where it dissipated. The tornadic winds snapped a poplar tree off near the base and blew lawn furnature around the large multi-dwelling yard. A heavy tarpaulin which covered a large haystack row was partly shredded by the winds. Peak winds were estimated at 65 mph. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain | $1,000 | Tree damage was reported in Mountain. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Mountain | - | Broadcast media relays report of 2 inch hail in Pembina county. Time estimated from radar. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Mountain | - | The hail was mostly penny to nickel sized. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain | - | Numerous trees were blown down around town. Several buildings also sustained roof damage from large hail and falling tree limbs. Crops across Beaulieu and Thingvalla townships also sustained widespread wind and hail damage. |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Mountain | - | The funnel clouds were reported on top of the hill on county road 3. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Mountain | - | Intermittent touchdowns occurred along the damage path. The only damage reported was to trees in shelterbelts. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Mountain | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Mountain | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Mountain | - | 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.
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 Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2032181 | 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 1030309. 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.





