BlockOrrin, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Elling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58368. The Survey maps it on the Orrin quadrangle. 7 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,562 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOrrin fell from 22 to 7 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 | 22 | |
| 2020 | 7 | -15 (-68%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Orrin quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Orrin between 2015 and 2020, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BRANDON GROVE FIRE |
| 16 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PETE BURGARD FIRE |
Storms near this place
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orrin in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Orrin | $35,000 | Torrential rain occurred over the area with 4.5 inches falling that evening, which combined with an additional 1.5 inches that fell during the day. A road used for a driveway was washed out by the runoff, while ditches and culverts overflowed and damaged gravel roads. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orrin | $4,000 | Evergreen trees near the home were sheared off at roof level. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Orrin | - | Water several feet deep in some fields. Water from culverts flowing over county roads. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Orrin | - | Tornado briefly touched down in open country. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Orrin | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Orrin | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Orrin | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Orrin | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Orrin | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Orrin | - | 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 Orrin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4135819 | 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 1030580. 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.