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.
Population over time
2 figuresPick 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 123 | |
| 2020 | 123 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1922 USGS Garrison quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Garrison Dam North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HWY 1806 MM141 |
| 4 April 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1,764 acres | Audubon National Wildlife Refuge | RIVERDALE WOODS/DOWNSTREAM |
| 24 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MARVIN KNELL |
| 16 October 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | APACHE LOOP FIRE |
Storms near this place
22 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | $1,000,000 | In 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 2011 | Flood | Pick City | $500,000 | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | $50,000 | The strong winds flipped over campers. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | $35,000 | A 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | $10,000 | A tree uprooted at Lake Shore Estates/Dakota Waters Bay, and many tree branches were blown down at Lake Shore Estates. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | - | The wind gust speed was estimate by the public. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | - | A strong thunderstorm wind gust was reported. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Pick City | - | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Pick City | - | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| September 2024 | Hail | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| September 2024 | Hail | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Pick City | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Pick City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knife River Village (historical) | 13.4 miles | 8 | |
| Stanton | 13.7 miles | 8 | |
| Truax | 14.7 miles | 6 | |
| Hazen | 17.4 miles | 5 | |
| Beulah | 24.3 miles | 6 | |
| Zap | 29.3 miles | 5 | |
| Golden Valley | 35.8 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 Pick City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2444396 | 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 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.



