Rolette, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the South Rolette unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58366. The Survey maps it on the Rolette quadrangle. 484 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,627 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRolette fell from 594 to 484 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 | 594 | |
| 2020 | 484 | -110 (-19%) |
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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Rolette quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Rock Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Rolette between 2001 and 2019, burning about 1,483 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | CEMETERY |
| 27 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | BAILER |
| 4 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | BLAIN |
| 10 July 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | JUNE BUG |
| 2 June 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | SMOKEY |
| 5 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 50516 |
| 22 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | YOUNGBIRD |
| 21 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | BRIEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rolette in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolette | $20,000 | The strong winds uprooted several trees. One tree fell onto a house and caused some damage. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolette | $20,000 | Thunderstorm wind damage to a golf course shed was reported. Wind speed is estimated based on the damage description. |
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Rolette | $20,000 | Up to four inches of rain over a two hour period caused water nearly a foot deep to flow through the streets in the city of Rollete and into some yards and basements. The water had receded by around 1 AM CDT. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolette | $2,000 | A large tree blew over. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolette | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by emergency management. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolette | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated by the Emergency Manager. |
| July 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Rolette | - | A Rolette County Deputy witnessed a tornado touching down approximately one mile east of the city of Rolette. The tornado lasted about one minute and caused no damage. It was rated EF0. |
| August 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Rolette | - | This tornado occurred in the open country. No structures were impacted, so no damage was done. The Rolla Fire Department was also reporting this tornado to the National Weather Service in real time. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Rolette | - | No damage reported. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Rolette | - | USDA reports 8,000 acres of crops completely destroyed. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolette | - | Numerous trees, greater than 10 inch in diameter, blown down. Several sheds destroyed. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Rolette | - | Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| May 1999 | Flash Flood | Rolette | - | flooded roads from rolette to belcourt to st john. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Rolette | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Rolette | - | 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.
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 Rolette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2443107 | 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 1030956. 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.



