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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.

White Earth within Mountrail County

Population over time

2 figures

White 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.

YearPeople Change
201080
2020100+20 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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

1 since 2017

Regional 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/distribution1

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
4 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBELIK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014FloodWhite Earth$254,000Flooding 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 2009FloodWhite Earth$216,000Overland flooding resulted in damage to local and county roads.
March 2009FloodWhite Earth$186,000Overland flooding damaged state, county and township roads. No homes were flooded. Flooding continued into April.
June 2011Flash FloodWhite Earth$20,000Slow moving and redeveloping thunderstorms brought heavy rain to the area. Excessive runoff from the heavy rain resulted in flash flood conditions to develop.
August 2020Tornado (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 2013HailWhite Earth-Public report of large hail.
June 2011Heavy RainWhite 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 2003HailWhite Earth-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWhite Earth-Several large trees bent over and numerous tree branches broken off.
July 2024HailWhite Earth-no account filed
August 2020HailWhite Earth-no account filed
August 2020HailWhite Earth-no account filed
June 2020HailWhite Earth-no account filed
June 2019Funnel CloudWhite Earth-no account filed
September 2014HailWhite Earth-no account filed
July 2005HailWhite Earth-no account filed
June 2003HailWhite Earth-no account filed
August 2001HailWhite Earth-no account filed
August 1999HailWhite Earth-no account filed
July 1998HailWhite Earth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mountrail 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
Manitou8.0 miles4
Ross12.9 miles4
Lunds Valley15.0 miles5
Lostwood19.6 miles4
Stanley20.8 miles5
Wassaic21.0 miles4
Belden27.1 miles4
Palermo29.0 miles4

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 EarthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443498The 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.