Neche, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Neche City. It lies in ZIP code area 58265. The Survey maps it on the Neche quadrangle. 344 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNeche fell from 371 to 344 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 | 371 | |
| 2020 | 344 | -27 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1939 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:62500
- 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 Neche quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neche in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Neche | $174,000 | Neche gage, on the Pembina River. Crested at 19.22ft on April 16th at 04:15.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Neche | $174,000 | Neche gage, on the Pembina River. Second crest of 21.05 ft on April 18th at 20:15.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Neche | $174,000 | Neche gage, on the Pembina River. Third Crest at 20.33 ft on April 29th at 05:00.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Neche | $10,000 | Quarter to half dollar sized hail fell. Wind drive hail produced crop, roofing, and some vehicle damage across neche township. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neche | - | Multiple trees damaged in a shelter belt. Time estimated. |
| May 2023 | Flood | Neche | - | Neche gage on the Pembina River. Briefly crested at 19.50 feet on May 1st at 00:00. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Neche | - | Very little wind accompanied the hail. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neche | - | Large tree branches and powerlines were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neche | - | An 87 mph wind gust was measured at the Neche/Gretna port of entry. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neche | - | 70 mph winds blew down several tree branches. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Neche | - | The tornado touched down near county highway 55 and tracked for nearly 3 miles, passing just west of Neche. Several trees were knocked down on both sides of state highway 18 at the northwest corner of Neche, indicating a possible counter-clockwise rotation (which is a rare phenomenon in the northern hemisphere). The tornado continued along a north-northeast path and crossed the Canadian border about one-half mile east of the Neche-Gretna border station. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Neche | - | The tornado moved east-northeast toward the river southeast of Neche. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Neche | - | This tornado originated near Altona, Manitoba, Canada. The tornado tracked across the international border northeast of Neche, and continued southeast for about a mile across a wheat field at F1 intensity. The tornado skipped along for another 4.5 miles at F0 intensity. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Neche | - | Small streams were spilling out of their banks as 4 to 6 inches of rain fell. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neche | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Neche | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Neche | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Hail | Neche | - | 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 Neche | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2443547 | 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 1030364. 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.







