Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Tuttle, ND

Tuttle is an incorporated city in Kidder County, in central North Dakota.

Tuttle was platted in 1910 by the Dakota Land and Townsite Company and named for Colonel William P. Tuttle, an official of the company who never lived in the town but once bought baseball uniforms for the local team.

The Northern Pacific Railway laid track through Tuttle on October 4, 1911, and service between Tuttle and Pingree to the east began later that month.

The 2020 census counted 60 residents in Tuttle, down from 80 in 2010 and from a peak of 383 in 1930.

In the 2010 census the city had 43 households, and its median age was 59.3 years.

Tuttle covers 0.25 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 1,850 feet.

The city's ZIP code is 58488.

A fire on January 21, 1917, destroyed the Miller General Store and several other businesses, and citizens then organized the volunteer fire department that still exists today.

A tornado struck Tuttle on the evening of July 1, 1952, heavily damaging several homes, and a hailstorm on July 3, 1935, broke nearly every north- and west-facing window in town.

Tuttle's school closed in 2007, the same year its abandoned Danielson Hotel landmark was demolished and its 1938 WPA field-stone post office building was gutted by a furnace fire and later restored by 2011.