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North Dakota: records in the National Inventory of Dams

North Dakota had 55 high-hazard records as of October 30, 2026, according to the National Inventory of Dams.

That is 48th of 52 states and territories by high-hazard records. The NID holds 950 records for North Dakota in all.

North Dakota, October 2026

55
High-hazard records
October 2026
48th of 52 states and territories; 5.8% of the state’s 950 records. A hazard class is not a risk.
950
Records in the inventory
October 2026
32nd of 52 states and territories; separate structures recorded with a dam are included.
46
High hazard, condition published
October 2026
12 rated Poor or Unsatisfactory; the NID publishes no condition for 9 of the state’s 55 high-hazard records.

Records by hazard class

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The 950 records the NID holds for North Dakota, by the hazard class the responsible agency assigned, October 2026. A class is the consequence of a failure, not its likelihood.
Hazard classRecords
High55
Significant64
Low786
Undetermined45

Condition of the high-hazard records

The NID publishes a condition for 46 of North Dakota’s 55 high-hazard records. A condition it does not publish is counted on its own line and never under a rating. Not Rated is the NID’s category for a record not inspected or not rated, and states rate their own dams, so these counts are not a comparison between states.

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North Dakota’s high-hazard records by the NID’s condition assessment, October 2026
Condition assessmentRecords
Satisfactory19
Fair10
Poor12
Unsatisfactory0
Not Rated5
Not published: the condition assessment is not provided to the NID9
Not published: no condition assessment in the NID0

Counties of North Dakota in the inventory

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The 54 counties of North Dakota that the NID names, most high-hazard records first; counties with the same count share a rank. A record the NID names no county for is in the state’s totals above and in no row here. County names are the NID’s.
CountyHigh-hazard recordsRecords
Benson1015
Ward638
Grand Forks532
Williams332
Cass328
Walsh321
Stark227
Barnes226
Oliver226
Mercer225
Stutsman222
Pembina218
Rolette216
Morton144
Bowman138
Hettinger135
Burleigh126
Grant126
Dunn125
Sioux123
Mountrail121
Golden Valley115
Cavalier111
Ramsey111
McLean045
Adams036
McKenzie028
Sargent018
Billings017
Emmons015
LaMoure015
Slope015
Bottineau013
Dickey012
Burke011
Nelson011
Wells011
Towner010
Kidder09
Richland09
Steele09
McHenry08
Eddy07
Ransom07
Divide06
McIntosh06
Foster05
Logan05
Sheridan05
Traill05
Griggs04
Renville04
Pierce02
Clay01

Compared with the states nearest in records

Each state or territory beside the one just above or below it by records in the inventory.

North Dakota elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crime Crime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Cities by violent crime rate in North Dakota Crime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison population Crime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and age Crime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crime Crime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligations Federal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofits Nonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctors Health

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Farm program payments Farm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loans PPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Population, age, income and origin Demographics

    The Census Bureau's population estimates year by year, with births, deaths and migration, and age, income, poverty, housing and origin from the American Community Survey, each with its margin of error.

  • Public schools Schools

    Pupils, schools and teachers, the largest districts, what districts spend per pupil and where the money comes from, and the colleges that take federal student aid.

  • Banks and credit unions Banks and credit unions

    The FDIC-insured banks headquartered in the state and their offices, and the credit unions based there and their sites, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Housing Housing

    The homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state, by program and county, and its tax-credit housing, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Mortgage lending Mortgage lending

    The mortgage applications, loans and denials lenders reported in the state under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and its largest lenders and counties.

  • Cost of living Cost of living

    BEA’s price level for the state against the nation, for goods, rents, utilities and other services, and its metro areas beside it.

  • Child care prices Childcare costs

    What child care centers and family child care homes charged in each county of the state, as DOL’s National Database of Childcare Prices publishes them, with the counties it leaves blank.

  • Economy Economy

    The state’s counties on BEA’s county GDP and personal income tables: real GDP, personal income and per-capita personal income, with the counties BEA withholds a figure for.

  • Treatment facilities Treatment facilities

    Substance use and mental health treatment listings in the state, as SAMHSA’s directories print them: not a license, a rating or a recommendation.

  • Health centers Health centers

    Community health center sites in the state, from HRSA’s Data Warehouse, by county and by the organization that runs them: no rating and no recommendation.

  • Pandemic relief Pandemic relief

    COVID-19 relief obligated to the state’s government, from PRAC’s state workbook, by awarding agency: not every award made in the state, and no PPP loan.

  • County health County health

    CDC’s model-based estimates of adult health, risk behaviors and prevention for every county in the state, each with its 95% interval.

  • Historic places Historic places

    Every place on the National Register of Historic Places in the state, by county and by the year it was listed, from the National Park Service’s listed-properties file.

  • Health care exclusions Health care program exclusions

    Every exclusion in effect in the state on OIG’s list of people and organizations barred from Medicare, Medicaid and every other federal health care program, by authority and year.

  • Registered aircraft Aircraft registry

    Aircraft on the FAA’s register whose registrant’s address is in the state, and the kind of registrant that holds them.

  • H-1B salaries H-1B salaries

    The offered wages on H-1B applications the Department of Labor certified with a first worksite in the state, by occupation, each median with the count behind it.

  • Migration between states Migration between states

    Tax returns and exemptions that moved into and out of the state from other states, from the IRS Statistics of Income, with the states they moved from and to.

  • Disaster declarations Disasters

    Every federal disaster declaration FEMA made for the state, by type, incident and county, with each measure’s rank among the states and territories.

  • College athletics Sports

    Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

  • Federal civilian workforce Federal salaries

    Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

  • The North Dakota Factbook entry Across the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

Sources

Compiled automatically from National Inventory of Dams — national CSV by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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