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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.

Rolette within Rolette County

Population over time

2 figures

Rolette 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.

YearPeople Change
2010594
2020484-110 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

17 since 2001

Regional 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyCEMETERY
27 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyBAILER
4 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyBLAIN
10 July 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyJUNE BUG
2 June 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencySMOKEY
5 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service50516
22 May 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyYOUNGBIRD
21 May 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyBRIEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rolette County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRolette$20,000The strong winds uprooted several trees. One tree fell onto a house and caused some damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRolette$20,000Thunderstorm wind damage to a golf course shed was reported. Wind speed is estimated based on the damage description.
August 2008Flash FloodRolette$20,000Up 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 2020Thunderstorm WindRolette$2,000A large tree blew over.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRolette-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by emergency management.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRolette-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated by the Emergency Manager.
July 2017Tornado (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 2010Tornado (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 2005HailRolette-No damage reported.
July 2005HailRolette-USDA reports 8,000 acres of crops completely destroyed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRolette-Numerous trees, greater than 10 inch in diameter, blown down. Several sheds destroyed.
July 2002HailRolette-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
May 1999Flash FloodRolette-flooded roads from rolette to belcourt to st john.
July 2020HailRolette-no account filed
July 2020HailRolette-no account filed
June 2019HailRolette-no account filed
July 2015Funnel CloudRolette-no account filed
July 2010HailRolette-no account filed
May 2007HailRolette-no account filed
August 2007HailRolette-no account filed
July 2005HailRolette-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindRolette-no account filed
June 2004HailRolette-no account filed
July 1996HailRolette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rolette 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
Nanson6.8 miles7
Thorne7.2 miles7
Fonda9.4 miles6
Shell Valley9.5 miles9
Mylo11.9 miles7
Belcourt13.3 miles7
Dunseith15.7 miles9
San Haven15.9 miles9

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 RoletteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443107The 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.