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Surrey, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Surrey City. It lies in ZIP code area 58785. The Survey maps it on the Surrey quadrangle. 1,357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.

Surrey within Ward County

On record in Surrey

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

Surrey grew from 934 to 1,357 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
2010934
20201,357+423 (+45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Surrey between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,102 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceINCIDENT # 105
19 June 2020Smokingunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service1725 HWY 2 AND 52
19 May 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service67
8 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,100 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSWARTWOUT
7 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service55TH ST NE
14 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBRUSH FIRE
28 November 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service4645 17TH AVE SE

Every fire recorded in Ward County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Surrey in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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
June 2005Flash FloodSurrey$200,000no account filed
May 2011Flash FloodSurrey$5,000Heavy rain resulted in flash flooding conditions in the city of Minot during the late afternoon.
July 2011HailSurrey-There were no reports of damage associated with the large hail.
April 2002HailSurrey-Hail covered the ground accumulating around 2 inches in depth.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSurrey-Some tree damage reported.
June 2000Tornado (F0)Surrey-Tornado crossed into McHenry county and remained in open field.
September 2025Funnel CloudSurrey-no account filed
July 2024Funnel CloudSurrey-no account filed
July 2020HailSurrey-no account filed
June 2020HailSurrey-no account filed
June 2020HailSurrey-no account filed
August 2012HailSurrey-no account filed
August 2012HailSurrey-no account filed
August 2012HailSurrey-no account filed
August 2012HailSurrey-no account filed
May 2007HailSurrey-no account filed
July 2003HailSurrey-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindSurrey-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
Logan6.2 miles11
Minot8.6 miles11
Sawyer11.0 miles11
Ruthville12.8 miles10
Wolseth14.5 miles9
South Prairie15.4 miles9
Burlington15.9 miles10
Drady16.5 miles11

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 SurreyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q523979The 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 1032399. 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.