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Willow City, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Ostby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58384. It stands on Ox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willow City quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.

Willow City within Bottineau County

Population over time

2 figures

Willow City fell from 163 to 149 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
2010163
2020149-14 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 Willow City between 2007 and 2016, burning about 25 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/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use22 acresNorth Dakota State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS AND TREE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Bottineau County

Storms near this place

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willow City in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2011Thunderstorm WindWillow City$75,000Thunderstorm wind damage was sustained to trees and a large barn was blown down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWillow City$50,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted numerous trees and blew down utility poles in the Willow City area.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWillow City-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2024HailWillow City-no account filed
June 2018Funnel CloudWillow City-no account filed
September 2015HailWillow City-no account filed
June 2012HailWillow City-no account filed
July 2012HailWillow City-no account filed
June 2011HailWillow City-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWillow City-no account filed
May 2004HailWillow City-no account filed
July 2002HailWillow City-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWillow City-no account filed
June 2000HailWillow City-no account filed
May 1998HailWillow City-no account filed
July 1997HailWillow City-no account filed
June 1996HailWillow City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bottineau 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
Belmar4.3 miles7
Tasco6.1 miles7
Omemee7.7 miles7
Overly9.3 miles6
Gardena12.7 miles7
Bottineau17.3 miles8
White18.6 miles6
Kramer22.7 miles7

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 Willow CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2483307The 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 1032818. 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.