BlockBelden, North Dakota
4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Sikes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58784. The Survey maps it on the Belden quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 4 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.
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Belden quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Belden between 2005 and 2016, burning about 160 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 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 16 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TISTO FIRE |
| 4 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MBI FIRE |
| 23 April 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | MEIERS FIRE |
| 13 April 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MANITOU 2 FIRE |
| 12 April 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 100 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MANITOU 1 FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belden in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Belden | $40,000 | The tornado touched down at a farmstead where multiple campers were parked. One camper was overturned and destroyed, and a small metal grain bin had its roof torn off. The tornado then proceeded into an open field with no other structures impacted. Based on the damage done the tornado was rated EF-1, with winds estimated to be approximately 90 MPH. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Belden | - | rainfall with storm measured 2.5 inches. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belden | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Belden | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Belden | - | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Hail | Belden | - | 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.
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 Belden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4882114 | 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 1027875. 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.