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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.

Ross within Mountrail County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Ross 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.

YearPeople Change
201097
202095-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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

14 since 2005

Regional 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 use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM 80
6 August 2018Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service84TH BALE
17 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBARSTAD FIRE
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH
19 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
26 June 2005Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM 78

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail County

Storms near this place

14 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Funnel CloudRoss-This funnel cloud lasted for two minutes, and did not reach the surface.
June 2008HailRoss-Hail ranged from penny to quarter size.
August 2008HailRoss-No damage reports were received from the large hail.
July 2025HailRoss-no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindRoss-no account filed
September 2025Funnel CloudRoss-no account filed
July 2024Funnel CloudRoss-no account filed
July 2024HailRoss-no account filed
July 2020Funnel CloudRoss-no account filed
June 2020Funnel CloudRoss-no account filed
July 2016HailRoss-no account filed
August 2009HailRoss-no account filed
July 2005HailRoss-no account filed
June 2003HailRoss-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mountrail 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
Manitou5.0 miles4
Stanley8.3 miles5
Wassaic11.1 miles4
White Earth12.9 miles4
Lostwood13.1 miles4
Lunds Valley13.6 miles5
Belden14.9 miles4
Palermo16.9 miles4

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 RossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2432286The 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.