BlockAlfred, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Glen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58454. The Survey maps it on the Jud quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1896 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Jud quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Alfred between 2015 and 2019, burning about 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RORY METZ |
| 31 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TROY NELSON |
| 27 February 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KEVIN OVA |
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfred in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 3 flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Flood | Alfred | $1,770,000 | The James River did major flood damage. Overland flooding damaged state, county and township roads. Two hundred and thirty homes were flooded, five were complete losses. Flooding continued into April. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Alfred | $123,000 | A second round of overland flooding and continued flooding along the James River resulted in additional damage to several county and local roads and 16 homes. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Alfred | $100,000 | Flooding from snow melt runoff caused significant damages to county infrastructure. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Alfred | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jud | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Nortonville | 14.2 miles | 10 | |
| Deisem | 15.7 miles | 11 | |
| Saint George (historical) | 20.9 miles | 11 | |
| Kulm | 21.0 miles | 11 | |
| Edgeley | 22.6 miles | 11 | |
| Adrian | 23.6 miles | 10 | |
| Medberry | 25.5 miles | 11 |
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 Alfred | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4722170 | 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 1033625. 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.