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Parshall, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Parshall City. It lies in ZIP code area 58770. The Survey maps it on the Parshall quadrangle. 949 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,932 feet above sea level.

Parshall within Mountrail County

Population over time

2 figures

Parshall grew from 903 to 949 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
2010903
2020949+46 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

78 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Parshall between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,212 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 1 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
Natural24
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burning32 acresFort Berthold AgencyESTVOLD
5 September 2012Natural28 acresFort Berthold AgencyCLINT
30 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyPARSHALL PIT
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined298 acresFort Berthold AgencyKOKOV
3 September 2017Natural1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencySTAR FOX
3 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance23 acresFort Berthold AgencyLOEN
22 September 2012Natural5.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyJOHNSON
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyMAURER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parshall in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindParshall$80,000Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds. The wind driven hail resulted in broken windows to area homes and some crop damage.
August 2010HailParshall$65,000The large hail resulted in broken windows to mobile homes.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindParshall$35,000The peak wind speed was estimated from numerous reports of tree damage in the Parshall area.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindParshall$20,000A camper was blown over.
June 2010HailParshall$14,000The large hail was accompanied with strong thunderstorm winds. The wind driven hail resulted in damage to vehicles and to a screen door window.
June 2012Flash FloodParshall$10,000Very heavy rainfall of up to six inches fell in and around the Parshall area. Water was reported to be flowing over Highway 37 south of Parshall.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindParshall$8,000The strong winds lasted a few minutes.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindParshall$5,000Large branches broken on trees.
August 2022HailParshall-Hail combined with winds gusting to over 70 mph to produce extensive crop damage to lentils, wheat, canola, and corn.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindParshall-An estimated severe thunderstorm wind gust was reported.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindParshall-An estimated severe thunderstorm wind gust was reported.
June 2011Funnel CloudParshall-A funnel cloud briefly formed near Parshall.
June 2010HailParshall-No reports of damage were received from the large hail.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindParshall-Estimated winds of 60 mph were reported.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindParshall-High winds tore off deck from a trailer. Siding and skirting off several homes.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindParshall-Roof ripped off of Parshall Post Office as well as numerous tree branches down in Parshall.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindParshall-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindParshall-no account filed
June 2018HailParshall-no account filed
June 2017Funnel CloudParshall-no account filed
September 2015Thunderstorm WindParshall-no account filed
June 2014HailParshall-no account filed
June 2012HailParshall-no account filed
June 2011HailParshall-no account filed
June 2010HailParshall-no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindParshall-no account filed
August 2009HailParshall-no account filed
June 2002HailParshall-no account filed
August 2001Funnel CloudParshall-no account filed
July 1997HailParshall-no account filed
September 1996HailParshall-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindParshall-no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindParshall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mountrail 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
Wabek9.5 miles5
Plaza10.5 miles6
Epworth12.2 miles4
Prairie Junction12.6 miles5
Belden18.1 miles4
New Town18.9 miles7
Sanish21.8 miles8
Blaisdell26.6 miles4

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 ParshallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2310217The 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 1030639. 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.