Pillsbury, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ellsbury Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58065. The Survey maps it on the Pillsbury quadrangle. 12 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPillsbury grew from 12 to 12 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 | 12 | |
| 2020 | 12 | 0 (0%) |
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 Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Pillsbury quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pillsbury in 2017, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2017 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Valley City Wetland Management District | GOOSE LAKE/FUGELSTAD WPA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pillsbury in 33 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 18 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 2011 | Flash Flood | Pillsbury | $25,000 | Several sections of farmland and farm access roads were flooded across Ellsbury Township. |
| August 2011 | Flood | Pillsbury | $10,000 | Overland flooding continued near Pillsbury after three to six inches of rain fell. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Pillsbury | $5,000 | Water continued to flow over North Dakota highway 32 in multiple locations where local creeks contribute to the Maple River. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Pillsbury | $2,000 | A quarter mile stretch of highway 32 was closed due to water over the road. Water was also reported to be running over Interstate 94 near the Cass County line. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | $500 | Large tree limbs were downed by the wind. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | NDAWN station at Pillsbury reported an 88 mph wind gust. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | Delayed report from social media of 1 inch hail in Pillsbury, time estimated from radar. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | Delayed report of tree damage from social media, time estimated via radar. |
| September 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDSU NDAWN mesonet station. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | The hail was accompanied by heavy rain. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | The wind gust was measured at a NDAWN mesonet site. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Pillsbury | - | Water covered state highway 32 at numerous spots between mile markers 86 and 91. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | Penny to quarter sized hail and downburst winds affected most of Ellsburg and Minnie Lake Townships. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN sensor. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Pillsbury | - | The tornado tracked about 1 mile to the Cass county border. The tornado dissipated in Cass county. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pillsbury | - | A 58 mph wind gust was measured at an NDAWN mesonet site. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Pillsbury | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sibley | 9.2 miles | 8 | |
| Ashtabula (historical) | 13.5 miles | 8 | |
| Oriska | 19.1 miles | 11 | |
| Koldok | 19.5 miles | 10 | |
| Peak | 20.0 miles | 10 | |
| North Valley City | 21.1 miles | 10 | |
| Dazey | 21.8 miles | 8 | |
| Valley City | 22.6 miles | 11 |
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 Pillsbury | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q48778 | 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 1030713. 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.




