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Appam, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Blue Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58830. The Survey maps it on the Appam quadrangle.

Appam within Williams County

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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Appam in 1993, burning about 205 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
21 May 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined205 acresCrosby Wetland Management DistrictLAKE ZAHL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Appam: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Kettle Lake Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Williams County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Appam in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAppam-Emergency Management estimated that thunderstorm winds were gusting up to 60 mph.
July 2000HailAppam-Hail reported at the intersection of highway 50 and 85.
May 2023HailAppam-no account filed
August 1993Tornado (F0)Appam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Williams 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
Zahl5.5 miles6
Alamo6.4 miles6
Hanks11.6 miles7
Blacktail12.6 miles5
Marmon13.1 miles5
Gladys13.3 miles5
Corinth14.1 miles6
Bonetraill17.0 miles5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1027721. 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.