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Pettibone, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pettibone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58475. The Survey maps it on the Pettibone quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,847 feet above sea level.

Pettibone within Kidder County

Population over time

2 figures

Pettibone fell from 70 to 60 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
201070
202060-10 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pettibone between 2011 and 2019, burning about 139 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceNORDGAARD FIRE
25 July 2011Natural3.0 acresChase Lake National Wildlife RefugeCHASE LAKE
3 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDAVE SHOCKMAN FIRE
28 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-08
19 November 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceNORTHERN PLAINS POWER POLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kidder County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pettibone in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1999Thunderstorm WindPettibone$400,000Widespread structure and tree damage.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindPettibone$200,000Two large grain bins became dislodged from their base and rolled to the west. One ended up over the nearby county road, and the other ended up wrapped around the side of a house.
July 2001HailPettibone-The hail occurred with the same storm which produced the large tornado. The hail damaged windows and vehicles.
August 1997Tornado (F0)Pettibone-brief touchdown
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPettibone-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPettibone-no account filed
July 2024HailPettibone-no account filed
August 2020HailPettibone-no account filed
July 2017HailPettibone-no account filed
July 2014HailPettibone-no account filed
July 2013HailPettibone-no account filed
June 2012HailPettibone-no account filed
August 2011HailPettibone-no account filed
July 2011HailPettibone-no account filed
August 2006HailPettibone-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindPettibone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kidder 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
Lake Williams5.1 miles7
Robinson14.0 miles7
Crystal Springs16.8 miles7
Ladoga16.9 miles7
Tappen18.0 miles6
Dawson21.2 miles7
Tuttle25.2 miles7
Steele27.8 miles7

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 PettiboneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2445926The 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 1030695. 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.