White Earth, North Dakota
4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1969. It stands in White Earth City. It lies in ZIP code area 58794. It stands on Paulsen Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Earth quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,087 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWhite Earth grew from 80 to 100 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 | 80 | |
| 2020 | 100 | +20 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 4 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 Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS White Earth quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of White Earth in 2017, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BELIK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Earth in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 12 hail, 3 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2014 | Flood | White Earth | $254,000 | Flooding occurred over Mountrail 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. |
| April 2009 | Flood | White Earth | $216,000 | Overland flooding resulted in damage to local and county roads. |
| March 2009 | Flood | White Earth | $186,000 | Overland flooding damaged state, county and township roads. No homes were flooded. Flooding continued into April. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | White Earth | $20,000 | Slow moving and redeveloping thunderstorms brought heavy rain to the area. Excessive runoff from the heavy rain resulted in flash flood conditions to develop. |
| August 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | White Earth | - | This tornado touched down northwest of White Earth. The tornado produced no damage to evaluate and so by National Weather Service policy was rated EFU, EF Unknow. |
| July 2013 | Hail | White Earth | - | Public report of large hail. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | White Earth | - | A report of heavy rain measured at 1.50 inches was received. The time when the rain started is unknown. The report indicated the rain fell over a short period of time. Flash flood conditions eventually developed. Please see the Flash Flood entry for details. |
| July 2003 | Hail | White Earth | - | Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | White Earth | - | Several large trees bent over and numerous tree branches broken off. |
| July 2024 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Funnel Cloud | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | White Earth | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | White Earth | - | 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 White Earth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2443498 | 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 1032777. 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.


