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.
Population over time
2 figuresPettibone 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 70 | |
| 2020 | 60 | -10 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Pettibone quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Carrington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2011Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | NORDGAARD FIRE |
| 25 July 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge | CHASE LAKE |
| 3 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DAVE SHOCKMAN FIRE |
| 28 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-08 |
| 19 November 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | NORTHERN PLAINS POWER POLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettibone | $400,000 | Widespread structure and tree damage. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettibone | $200,000 | Two 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 2001 | Hail | Pettibone | - | The hail occurred with the same storm which produced the large tornado. The hail damaged windows and vehicles. |
| August 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Pettibone | - | brief touchdown |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| July 2013 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Pettibone | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pettibone | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Williams | 5.1 miles | 7 | |
| Robinson | 14.0 miles | 7 | |
| Crystal Springs | 16.8 miles | 7 | |
| Ladoga | 16.9 miles | 7 | |
| Tappen | 18.0 miles | 6 | |
| Dawson | 21.2 miles | 7 | |
| Tuttle | 25.2 miles | 7 | |
| Steele | 27.8 miles | 7 |
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 Pettibone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2445926 | 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 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.




