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.
Population over time
2 figuresWillow 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 163 | |
| 2020 | 149 | -14 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Willow City quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Bottineau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 22 acres | North Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 14 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS AND TREE FIRE |
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow City | $75,000 | Thunderstorm wind damage was sustained to trees and a large barn was blown down. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow City | $50,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted numerous trees and blew down utility poles in the Willow City area. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow City | - | A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Willow City | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Willow City | - | 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 Willow City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2483307 | 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 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.



