Saint John, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the North Rolette unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58369. The Survey maps it on the Saint John quadrangle. 322 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,949 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSaint John fell from 341 to 322 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 | 341 | |
| 2020 | 322 | -19 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Saint John quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Rock Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
349 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Saint John between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,045 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 66 were 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 | 147 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 101 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 66 |
| Other causes | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | SO LATE |
| 4 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | BUTCH |
| 30 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | BARN |
| 30 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | not named |
| 29 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | RUBBISH |
| 28 September 2011 | Other causes | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | JOE JOE |
| 28 September 2010 | Other causes | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | SPARKY |
| 26 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belcourt | 7.5 miles | 7 | |
| Rolla | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Shell Valley | 13.0 miles | 9 | |
| East Dunseith | 17.1 miles | 9 | |
| Kelvin | 18.0 miles | 9 | |
| Thorne | 18.4 miles | 7 | |
| San Haven | 19.0 miles | 9 | |
| Dunseith | 20.6 miles | 9 |
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 Saint John | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2443088 | 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 1031147. 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.



