Ryder, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Ryder City. It lies in ZIP code area 58779. The Survey maps it on the Ryder quadrangle. 108 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,103 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRyder grew from 85 to 108 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 | 85 | |
| 2020 | 108 | +23 (+27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Ryder quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Ryder in 2017, burning about 6 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BRAD HAUGEN |
| 31 October 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HAY BALE REKINDLE |
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryder in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Hail | Ryder | $35,000 | Large hail up to the size of golf balls broke windows and damaged crops in and around the town of Ryder. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryder | $25,000 | A hopper-style grain bin blew over. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryder | $2,000 | A large tree was blown down. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Ryder | - | Reported by the Air Force Missile Crew at Ryder. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Ryder | - | A few hail stones to the size of golfballs. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryder | - | Reports of numerous tree's down. |
| July 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Hail | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryder | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ryder | - | 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.
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 Ryder | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2233888 | 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 1031059. 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.


