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Barlow, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Estabrook Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58421. The Survey maps it on the Barlow quadrangle.

Barlow within Foster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Barlow between 1997 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
27 September 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresArrowwood Wetland Management DistrictBARLOW WF
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.7 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictTWEETEN
20 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArrowwood Wetland Management DistrictBARLOW
6 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePATE BALE FIRE
2 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCOPENHAVER BALE FIRE
7 May 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresArrowwood Wetland Management DistrictBARLOW
1 May 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSCHMIDT FIRE
1 May 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMIKE SCHMIDT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Foster County

Storms near this place

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barlow in 15 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 9 hail, 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2009FloodBarlow$555,000Rapid snowmelt caused heavy overland flooding and flooding along the James River. This resulted in flood damage to numerous county and local roads, railroad bridges, and seven homes.
March 2009FloodBarlow$50,000Overland flooding damaged county and township roads. No structures were flooded in March. Flooding continued into April.
April 2023FloodBarlow$10,000Flooding from snow melt runoff caused significant damages to county infrastructure.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBarlow$500A large tree was blown down by the strong winds.
July 2024Funnel CloudBarlow-no account filed
September 2023Thunderstorm WindBarlow-no account filed
August 2021HailBarlow-no account filed
August 2021HailBarlow-no account filed
August 2021HailBarlow-no account filed
June 2020HailBarlow-no account filed
July 2016HailBarlow-no account filed
July 2016HailBarlow-no account filed
July 2015HailBarlow-no account filed
July 2015HailBarlow-no account filed
June 2010HailBarlow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Foster 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
Guptill3.7 miles10
Lemert7.9 miles10
Carrington8.3 miles9
Bordulac15.6 miles10
Melville17.1 miles9
Grace City17.7 miles12
Juanita24.5 miles8
McHenry29.0 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 BarlowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033097The 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 1027809. 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.