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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1948 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Barlow quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1997Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arrowwood Wetland Management District | BARLOW WF |
| 23 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.7 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | TWEETEN |
| 20 July 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Arrowwood Wetland Management District | BARLOW |
| 6 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PATE BALE FIRE |
| 2 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COPENHAVER BALE FIRE |
| 7 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arrowwood Wetland Management District | BARLOW |
| 1 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SCHMIDT FIRE |
| 1 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MIKE SCHMIDT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Flood | Barlow | $555,000 | Rapid 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 2009 | Flood | Barlow | $50,000 | Overland flooding damaged county and township roads. No structures were flooded in March. Flooding continued into April. |
| April 2023 | Flood | Barlow | $10,000 | Flooding from snow melt runoff caused significant damages to county infrastructure. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barlow | $500 | A large tree was blown down by the strong winds. |
| July 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Barlow | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Barlow | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guptill | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Lemert | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Carrington | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bordulac | 15.6 miles | 10 | |
| Melville | 17.1 miles | 9 | |
| Grace City | 17.7 miles | 12 | |
| Juanita | 24.5 miles | 8 | |
| McHenry | 29.0 miles | 8 |
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 Barlow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22033097 | 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 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.





