Rohrville, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Ontario Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58327. The Survey maps it on the Crary NW quadrangle.

Rohrville within Ramsey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Crary NW quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rohrville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	7
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
13 June 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	ROHR
1 June 2020	Debris and open burning	25 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	POO
11 May 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SLOUGH
27 April 2019	Debris and open burning	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	TODD
7 November 1994	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Devil's Lake Wetland Management District	BECKER WPA
1 November 2012	Recreation and ceremony	7.3 acres	Devil's Lake Wetland Management District	SEITZ WPA
25 October 1999	Debris and open burning	46 acres	Devil's Lake Wetland Management District	ROMFO 2
22 October 2003	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Devil's Lake Wetland Management District	BECKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rohrville in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Rohrville	-	Damage to several outbuildings. A lean to roof was blown off. Several rafters of 40 by 60 outbuilding damaged in open doorway. Time estimated by radar.
June 2016	Hail	Rohrville	-	The hail was mostly pea sized, but there were a few quarter sized pieces too.

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Essex	4.8 miles	8
Crary	5.1 miles	8
Southam	5.8 miles	7
Keith	6.0 miles	14
Doyon	9.0 miles	7
Devils Lake	11.6 miles	14
Sweetwater	12.3 miles	14
Bartlett	13.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122558888

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 1033794. 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.