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Portland, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Portland City. It lies in ZIP code area 58274. It stands on South Branch Goose River. The Survey maps it on the Mayville South quadrangle. 578 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Portland within Traill County

On record in Portland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Portland fell from 606 to 578 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
2010606
2020578-28 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Portland between 2012 and 2020, burning about 8 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 burning4

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
10 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCR#14 & JCT CR#19 DITCH FIRE
7 May 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service14
16 April 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHANSON FARM 477A 154 AVE NE
7 March 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceNELSON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Traill County

Storms near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Portland in 17 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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 2025Thunderstorm WindPortland-Mesonet observations confirmed a 60 mph wind gust 1 mile west of Mayville. Mesonet station DVI06914 Mayville ND 1 W.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPortland-Davis station 1 west of Mayville reports 72 MPH gust.
June 2023HailPortland-Picture of quarter-sized hail in Portland relayed via Facebook.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPortland-Peak wind was reported at a personal weather station.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPortland-Tree branches were toppled and partially uprooted. Time estimated from radar.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindPortland-Received a public report of several large hardwood and evergreen trees snapped, along with widespread power outages. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPortland-Tree damage was reported.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Portland-This tornado was viewed by local residents. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindPortland-An empty steel grain bin was ripped from its pad and thrown across a farm yard. Several large tree limbs were snapped.
June 2019HailPortland-no account filed
August 2016HailPortland-no account filed
August 2002HailPortland-no account filed
August 2002HailPortland-no account filed
July 2001Funnel CloudPortland-no account filed
August 1997HailPortland-no account filed
June 1997HailPortland-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindPortland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Traill 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
Mayville2.4 miles9
Roseville4.1 miles8
Portland Junction4.4 miles8
Murray7.1 miles9
Clifford10.6 miles9
Hatton10.7 miles8
Blanchard13.2 miles10
Preston15.2 miles10

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 PortlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1917186The 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 1030786. 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.