BlockRuso, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Otis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58778. The Survey maps it on the Ruso quadrangle. 1 person lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,087 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRuso fell from 4 to 1 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 | 4 | |
| 2020 | 1 | -3 (-75%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1929 USGS Kongsberg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Kongsberg SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Drake quadrangle1:100000
- 1981 USGS Ruso quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
13 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruso in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Tornado (EF2) | Ruso | $250,000 | This was the third of three tornadoes this day in McLean County, all near Ruso and in less than a one hour period of time. The tornado formed in an open field and approached a farmstead, passing just to the west and south of it. Near the farmstead the tornado destroyed three small wooden granaries, flipped a large seed cart attached to an air seeder, flipped anhydrous ammonia tanks, and tossed hay bales. The tornado continued on south of the farmstead where it tossed multiple hay bales before dissipating. Based on the damage done the tornado was rated EF-2, with winds estimated to be approximately 120 MPH. |
| August 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Ruso | $25,000 | This was the second of three tornadoes this day in McLean County, all near Ruso and in less than a one hour period of time. Hardwood trees were snapped and an animal shelter was destroyed shortly after development. Based on the damage done the tornado was rated EF-1, with winds estimated to be approximately 110 MPH. |
| August 2022 | Tornado (EFU) | Ruso | - | This was the first of three tornadoes this day in McLean County, all near Ruso and in less than a one hour period of time. The tornado touched down in an open field east of Ruso and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF Unknown. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Ruso | - | The severe hail caused moderate crop damage. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Ruso | - | Trees stripped of leaves. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Ruso | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Ruso | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Ruso | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Ruso | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Ruso | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Ruso | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Ruso | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Ruso | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benedict | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Butte | 14.2 miles | 9 | |
| Max | 19.4 miles | 5 | |
| Turtle Lake | 22.1 miles | 8 | |
| Coleharbor | 25.5 miles | 9 | |
| Riverdale Junction | 26.7 miles | 8 | |
| Mercer | 26.7 miles | 6 | |
| Underwood | 28.5 miles | 8 |
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 Ruso | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q729570 | 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 1031045. 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.
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.