Pembina, North Dakota
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Pembina Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58271. It stands on Pembina River. The Survey maps it on the Pembina quadrangle. 512 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
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On record in Pembina
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 3 records
Icelandic Evangelical Lutheran Churchlisted 2019- Grace Episcopal Churchlisted 1994
- US Customs House and Post Office-Pembinalisted 1989
Population over time
2 figuresPembina fell from 592 to 512 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 | 592 | |
| 2020 | 512 | -80 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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 Pembina quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1941 USGS Pembina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Pembina quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pembina in 2019, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MARGARET RYAN LAND |
| 13 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | WILWANT CONTROL BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
46 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pembina in 46 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 23 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Flood | Pembina | $174,000 | Pembina - Crest of 46.68 ft occurred on 5/4 (Noted in May 2023 storm data). Flooding extended into May.||NOTE: Damages dollar amount is for the entire county. Not separated by specific river basin or damage type. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Pembina | $100,000 | This tornado tracked eastward for about two miles and appears to have lifted just before reaching the Red River. The tornado was likely wrapped in downburst winds and rain as it tracked across the north side of Pembina. Though wind and hail occurred over a broad area of Pembina and Pembina East townships, there was more extreme tree branch damage and evidence of a tornado track across the north side of town. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph. |
| April 2019 | Flood | Pembina | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Pembina | $20,000 | The hail broke many windows. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Pembina | $10,000 | The hail knocked out a yard light and damaged several vehicles. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Pembina | $5,000 | Western Pembina Township received five to six inches of rain in a three hour period. Farm fields and access roads were flooded along highway 55. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | $200 | Several trees were blown down. |
| May 2023 | Flood | Pembina | - | Pembina - Crest of 46.68 ft occurred on 5/4. Flooding began in April. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Numerous 3 to 5 inch branches were found broken around town, as well as a few 8 to 10 inch tree branches. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Several 3 to 5-inch tree branches were reported snapped. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Winds were gusting 55 to 60 mph through about 1320 CDT at the Pembina Border Crossing Station. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Pembina | - | A trained spotter reported pea to dime-sized hail. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Large trees were blown down and the grandstand roof was blown off the ball field. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Strong winds blew down trees and branches, which knocked out power for most of Pembina. A semi south of town was also tipped over in the northbound lane of Interstate 29. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Pembina | - | There were some gusts of wind. |
| September 2014 | Hail | Pembina | - | Significant tree and property damage were reported. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Tree branches up to 4 inches in diameter were blown down. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Strong winds occurred near the Red River bridge. |
| September 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Several large tree branches fell onto powerlines, causing power outages and a small tree fire. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Several small buildings were moved off their foundations. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | A 77 mph wind gust was measured at the Pembina port of entry. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Pembina | - | A brief touchdown was reported. |
| August 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Pembina | - | A tornado with multiple funnels was reported north of Pembina. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | Tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Pembina | - | A tornado travelled from just west of Pembina in Pembina county, to the Red River about 2 miles south southeast of Pembina, then continued on for about one-half of a mile in Kittson county southeast of St. Vincent. |
| July 2001 | Hail | Pembina | - | The ground was white with hail. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Pembina | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| September 2008 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Pembina | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Pembina | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huron City (historical) | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| McArthur | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Joliette | 10.3 miles | 14 | |
| Bathgate | 13.8 miles | 9 | |
| Fleece | 14.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hamilton | 15.5 miles | 9 | |
| Neche | 16.5 miles | 10 | |
| Ottention (historical) | 16.9 miles | 10 |
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 Pembina | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2087860 | 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 1030666. 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.







