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.
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
- Sentinel Butte Public Schoollisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresSentinel 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 56 | |
| 2020 | 61 | +5 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1953 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Belfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Sentinel Butte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2000Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | HWY 10 FIRE |
| 10 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Theodore Roosevelt National Park | MILE 36 |
| 27 July 2015 | Natural | 7.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FIERING LIGHTNING FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | $15,000 | The 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | $15,000 | Siding was blown off buildings. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | Local fire department officials estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm winds were gusting to 60 mph. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | Strong winds were reported in Sentinel Butte. |
| September 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2010 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | Strong thunderstorm winds accompanied the large hail. |
| July 2009 | Tornado (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 2006 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | Winds also estimated up to 50 mph. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | Wind gust to 55 mph (48 knots) accompanied the storm. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Sentinel Butte | - | Lightning started numerous fires and smoke reduced visibilities on interstate 94 to 1/2 mile at times. |
| August 1999 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | Automoble damage along interstate 94. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Sentinel Butte | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sentinel Butte | - | 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 Sentinel Butte | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2278968 | 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 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.



