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Alkabo, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Westby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58845. The Survey maps it on the Alkabo quadrangle. It stands 2,188 feet above sea level.

Alkabo within Divide County

On record in Alkabo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Alkabo in 2005, burning about 250 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

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
10 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Divide County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alkabo: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sodium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Joe Mayo & Sons PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North and Miller LayesSodiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Divide County

Storms near this place

22 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alkabo in 22 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 14 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAlkabo$5,000Large tree limbs were snapped due to the strong winds.
August 2025HailAlkabo-Crops were severely damaged, including an entire canola field which was totaled.
August 2011HailAlkabo-Strong winds up to 55 miles per hour were also reported.
July 2004HailAlkabo-Wind gust to 52 knots accompanied the storm.
June 2025HailAlkabo-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAlkabo-no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAlkabo-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAlkabo-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAlkabo-no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAlkabo-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAlkabo-no account filed
May 2018HailAlkabo-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAlkabo-no account filed
August 2016HailAlkabo-no account filed
July 2016HailAlkabo-no account filed
June 2015HailAlkabo-no account filed
August 2013HailAlkabo-no account filed
September 2013HailAlkabo-no account filed
July 2012HailAlkabo-no account filed
June 2001HailAlkabo-no account filed
June 2001HailAlkabo-no account filed
July 2001HailAlkabo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Divide 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
Fortuna6.7 miles6
Stady13.8 miles6
Colgan15.1 miles6
Ambrose22.5 miles10
Crosby31.7 miles9
Juno36.4 miles8
Bounty37.8 miles8
Paulson40.2 miles8

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 AlkaboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4727624The 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 1027671. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.