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Rutland, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Rutland City. It lies in ZIP code area 58067. The Survey maps it on the Rutland quadrangle. 163 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Rutland within Sargent County

Population over time

2 figures

Rutland grew from 163 to 163 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
2010163
20201630 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Rutland between 1992 and 2016, burning about 200 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
22 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeFLAX
18 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeHORSESHOE
8 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeANDERSON
30 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGULLESON BROS
14 April 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service332016
12 April 2003Debris and open burning20 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeL.A.
21 November 2012Debris and open burning40 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePEARSON
23 October 2000Debris and open burning65 acresTewaukon National Wildlife RefugeLITCHFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sargent County

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rutland in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindRutland$250,000Numerous tree limbs were broken down around town. Fields were flattened by wind or stripped bare by wind driven hail. Wind damage occurred throughout Rutland and Dunbar townships from the 80 mph gusts.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRutland$10,000A tree was blown over onto a house. Several other trees fell across the city streets.
October 2008LightningRutland$5,000Lightning struck a moving pickup truck on Highway 11, between Rutland and Cayuga. The three passengers were unharmed, but the pickup itself was damaged. The antenna, electrical systems, one tire, and the windshield were damaged on the vehicle and a small hole was created in the pavement on Highway 11.
April 2022HailRutland-Estimated hail size via social media photo.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRutland-Received a public report of a snapped power pole, as well as shingles and siding panels blown off a nearby pole shed. Time estimated based on radar.
July 2022HailRutland-Wind driven 1.25 inch hail caused damage across portions of western and central Tewaukon Township. This impacted several sections of farmland from 2 south of Rutland to around 8 south of Cayuga.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRutland-Several small trees were blown down. Pea size hail was also reported with 2 to 4 inches of rain.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindRutland-Tree damage was reported.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRutland-Several four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down around farmsteads and in shelterbelts across Tewaukon Township. There was also a brief period of dime to nickel sized hail.
July 2014HailRutland-Pea to quarter sized hail fell.
June 2013HailRutland-A few trees were also blown down.
May 2011HailRutland-Several quarter sized hailstones were embedded within a greater volume of pea sized hail.
May 2010HailRutland-Pea to penny sized hail fell.
June 2005Flash FloodRutland-Basement flooding was reported in Rutland. Crews had to pump water across roads that were acting like dikes.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRutland-Grain bins destroyed and two vehicles turned over.
July 2022HailRutland-no account filed
July 2003HailRutland-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindRutland-no account filed
July 2002HailRutland-no account filed
May 1999HailRutland-no account filed
May 1999HailRutland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sargent 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
Cayuga6.8 miles9
Ransom City (historical)7.2 miles9
Forman7.7 miles7
Havana9.2 miles6
Geneseo12.3 miles9
Hoving13.8 miles7
Hamlin14.2 miles10
Gwinner14.4 miles8

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 RutlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q592831The 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 1031055. 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.