Ross, North Dakota
4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58776. The Survey maps it on the Ross quadrangle. 95 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,303 feet above sea level.
On record in Ross
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 1 record
Assyrian Muslim Cemeterylisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresRoss fell from 97 to 95 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 | 97 | |
| 2020 | 95 | -2 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 4 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 Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Ross quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Ross between 2005 and 2019, burning about 19 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2018 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MM 80 |
| 6 August 2018 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 84TH BALE |
| 17 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BARSTAD FIRE |
| 30 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DITCH |
| 19 July 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 26 June 2005 | Natural | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 29 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MM 78 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ross in 14 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 8 hail, 5 funnel cloud, 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 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Ross | - | This funnel cloud lasted for two minutes, and did not reach the surface. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Ross | - | Hail ranged from penny to quarter size. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Ross | - | No damage reports were received from the large hail. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Ross | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ross | - | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Ross | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Ross | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Ross | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Ross | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Ross | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Ross | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Ross | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Ross | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Ross | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manitou | 5.0 miles | 4 | |
| Stanley | 8.3 miles | 5 | |
| Wassaic | 11.1 miles | 4 | |
| White Earth | 12.9 miles | 4 | |
| Lostwood | 13.1 miles | 4 | |
| Lunds Valley | 13.6 miles | 5 | |
| Belden | 14.9 miles | 4 | |
| Palermo | 16.9 miles | 4 |
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 Ross | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2432286 | 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 1031006. 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.


