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Sentinel Butte, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sentinel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58654. The Survey maps it on the Sentinel Butte quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,720 feet above sea level.

Sentinel Butte within Golden Valley County

On record in Sentinel Butte

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sentinel Butte grew from 56 to 61 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
201056
202061+5 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sentinel Butte between 2000 and 2015, burning about 10 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresDakota Prairie National GrasslandsHWY 10 FIRE
10 August 2006Naturalunder an acreTheodore Roosevelt National ParkMILE 36
27 July 2015Natural7.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFIERING LIGHTNING FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley County

Storms near this place

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sentinel Butte in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 16 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte$15,000The strong winds blew over a small shed and a camper causing damage. A flagpole was bent over and an old farm building was destroyed.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte$15,000Siding was blown off buildings.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-Local fire department officials estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds were gusting to 60 mph.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-Strong winds were reported in Sentinel Butte.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
September 2010HailSentinel Butte-Strong thunderstorm winds accompanied the large hail.
July 2009Tornado (EF0)Sentinel Butte-A brief tornado occurred. The tornado touched down in open country and impacted no structures. There were no reports of damage.
June 2006HailSentinel Butte-Winds also estimated up to 50 mph.
July 2004HailSentinel Butte-Wind gust to 55 mph (48 knots) accompanied the storm.
August 2000LightningSentinel Butte-Lightning started numerous fires and smoke reduced visibilities on interstate 94 to 1/2 mile at times.
August 1999HailSentinel Butte-Automoble damage along interstate 94.
May 2023HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
July 2023HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-no account filed
June 2020HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
June 2020HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
July 2016HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
May 2015Funnel CloudSentinel Butte-no account filed
May 2015HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
September 2015HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
July 2011HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-no account filed
July 2005HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
June 2002HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
June 2002HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
June 2000HailSentinel Butte-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindSentinel Butte-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Golden Valley 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
Chama3.9 miles5
De Mores5.1 miles6
Beach8.8 miles8
Thelan10.6 miles5
Rider10.7 miles6
Ekre11.3 miles5
Golva14.9 miles6
Alpha18.0 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 Sentinel ButteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2278968The 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 1032020. 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.