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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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
- Mckinney Cemeterylisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresTolley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 47 | |
| 2020 | 41 | -6 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1947 USGS Tolley quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Tolley quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Tolley quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Tolley quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge | STARK |
| 7 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge | MOUSE PARK |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siebert Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
33 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Tolley | $5,000,000 | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $700,000 | Strong 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $200,000 | Seven hopper style bins were blown over. |
| August 2024 | Hail | Tolley | $100,000 | The hail combined with thunderstorm wind gusts to destroy a wheat field. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Tolley | $96,000 | Flooding 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 2010 | Flash Flood | Tolley | $75,000 | Numerous 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $40,000 | Power lines were down along with tree limbs. One-third of the city of Tolley was without power following the storm. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $25,000 | The strong winds uprooted numerous large trees. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | $1,000 | A 12-inch diameter ash tree trunk split. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | - | Pea size hail accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2011 | Flood | Tolley | - | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Tolley | - | See the event episode narrative for details. |
| May 2011 | Tornado (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 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | - | Quanset shop and grain bins demolished. |
| June 2024 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| September 2018 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Tolley | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Tolley | - | 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 Tolley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2429755 | 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 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.





