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Pick City, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1972. It stands in Pick City City. It lies in ZIP code area 58545. The Survey maps it on the Garrison Dam North quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,923 feet above sea level.

Pick City within Mercer County

Population over time

2 figures

Pick City grew from 123 to 123 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
2010123
20201230 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pick City between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,772 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 1806 MM141
4 April 2006Debris and open burning1,764 acresAudubon National Wildlife RefugeRIVERDALE WOODS/DOWNSTREAM
24 April 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMARVIN KNELL
16 October 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceAPACHE LOOP FIRE

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this place

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pick City in 22 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPick City$1,000,000In the Beulah Bay area, two homes had parts of their roofs torn off, large trees were uprooted, manufactured homes were damaged, and multiple campers and boats on trailers were flipped. At Hazen Bay, campers were flipped and trees uprooted. Significant crop damage was also observed throughout this area and surrounding areas, with many fields appearing completely flattened suffering total crop loss.
June 2011FloodPick City$500,000See the event episode narrative for details.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindPick City$50,000The strong winds flipped over campers.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPick City$35,000A medium sized wooden outbuilding on a farm was shifted off its foundation, while its front door was torn off and back wall was blown out.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPick City$10,000A tree uprooted at Lake Shore Estates/Dakota Waters Bay, and many tree branches were blown down at Lake Shore Estates.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPick City-The wind gust speed was estimate by the public.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindPick City-A strong thunderstorm wind gust was reported.
August 2011FloodPick City-See the event episode narrative for details.
July 2011FloodPick City-See the event episode narrative for details.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindPick City-no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPick City-no account filed
September 2024HailPick City-no account filed
September 2024HailPick City-no account filed
August 2023HailPick City-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPick City-no account filed
July 2015HailPick City-no account filed
July 2015HailPick City-no account filed
August 2013HailPick City-no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPick City-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindPick City-no account filed
July 2006HailPick City-no account filed
July 2003HailPick City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Knife River Village (historical)13.4 miles8
Stanton13.7 miles8
Truax14.7 miles6
Hazen17.4 miles5
Beulah24.3 miles6
Zap29.3 miles5
Golden Valley35.8 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 Pick CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2444396The 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 1030702. 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.