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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.

Ryder within Ward County

Population over time

2 figures

Ryder 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.

YearPeople Change
201085
2020108+23 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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

2 since 2017

Regional 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 burning2

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
28 August 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBRAD HAUGEN
31 October 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHAY BALE REKINDLE

Every fire recorded in Ward County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010HailRyder$35,000Large hail up to the size of golf balls broke windows and damaged crops in and around the town of Ryder.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRyder$25,000A hopper-style grain bin blew over.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRyder$2,000A large tree was blown down.
June 2005HailRyder-Reported by the Air Force Missile Crew at Ryder.
July 2005HailRyder-A few hail stones to the size of golfballs.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindRyder-Reports of numerous tree's down.
July 2024Funnel CloudRyder-no account filed
July 2024HailRyder-no account filed
September 2019HailRyder-no account filed
June 2018HailRyder-no account filed
September 2015Thunderstorm WindRyder-no account filed
July 2011HailRyder-no account filed
May 2003HailRyder-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRyder-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindRyder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ward 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
Makoti7.4 miles5
Douglas10.2 miles5
Hesnault11.2 miles6
Drady21.0 miles11
South Prairie22.3 miles9
Des Lacs24.3 miles8
Ralston25.2 miles11
Lonetree25.2 miles6

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 RyderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2233888The 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.