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Tolley, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1980. It stands in McKinney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58787. The Survey maps it on the Tolley quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,854 feet above sea level.

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Tolley within Renville County

On record in Tolley

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

Tolley fell from 47 to 41 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
201047
202041-6 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tolley between 2007 and 2020, burning about 12 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUpper Souris National Wildlife RefugeSTARK
7 December 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresUpper Souris National Wildlife RefugeMOUSE PARK

Every fire recorded in Renville County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tolley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Siebert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Renville County

Storms near this place

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tolley in 33 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 18 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2011FloodTolley$5,000,000See the event episode narrative for details.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindTolley$700,000Strong winds toppled 85 thousand bushel grain bin. The bin had 4 thousand bushel in it at the time. Another grain bin with more grain in it was severely dented toward the top of the bin.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindTolley$200,000Seven hopper style bins were blown over.
August 2024HailTolley$100,000The hail combined with thunderstorm wind gusts to destroy a wheat field.
June 2014FloodTolley$96,000Flooding occurred over Renville County. Damage occurred to roads and culverts with many wash outs along township roads. There was crop damage as well. Rain amounts ranged from 2.50 inches in Bottineau County to as much as 7.00 inches in Renville County.
May 2010Flash FloodTolley$75,000Numerous roadways in northeastern Renville County near Sherwood were submerged due to heavy thunderstorm rains. Tree and other debris were also reported on roads. Several roads were reported washed out or closed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTolley$40,000Power lines were down along with tree limbs. One-third of the city of Tolley was without power following the storm.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTolley$25,000The strong winds uprooted numerous large trees.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTolley$1,000A 12-inch diameter ash tree trunk split.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindTolley-Pea size hail accompanied the strong winds.
July 2011FloodTolley-See the event episode narrative for details.
June 2011FloodTolley-See the event episode narrative for details.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Tolley-A tornado briefly touched down near Tolley in Renville County. The tornado touched down in open country and impacted no structures. No damage occurred with this brief EF0 tornado witnessed by a deputy sheriff.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindTolley-Quanset shop and grain bins demolished.
June 2024HailTolley-no account filed
July 2022HailTolley-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindTolley-no account filed
July 2019HailTolley-no account filed
July 2019HailTolley-no account filed
September 2018HailTolley-no account filed
June 2018HailTolley-no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudTolley-no account filed
June 2018HailTolley-no account filed
July 2015HailTolley-no account filed
July 2015HailTolley-no account filed
July 2015HailTolley-no account filed
May 2010HailTolley-no account filed
August 2010HailTolley-no account filed
June 2009HailTolley-no account filed
June 2005HailTolley-no account filed
July 2003HailTolley-no account filed
August 2002HailTolley-no account filed
July 1998HailTolley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Renville 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
Norma7.7 miles8
Greene8.3 miles6
Grano15.0 miles6
Loraine16.7 miles8
Mohall16.8 miles8
Sherwood19.0 miles7
Chola19.3 miles10
Glenburn35.4 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 TolleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2429755The 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 1032496. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.