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Berea, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hobart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58072. The Survey maps it on the Valley City West quadrangle. It stands 1,430 feet above sea level.

Berea within Barnes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

20 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Berea between 2005 and 2020, burning about 126 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 burning8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDWIGHT KIEFERT
8 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDON SCHLOTMAN
8 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2016Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURLINGTON NORTHERN
6 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictBARTZ WPA
5 July 2020Smokingunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 July 2020Smokingunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
12 July 2020Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFIELD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnes 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 Berea: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Valley City State PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barnes County

Storms near this place

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berea in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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 2025Tornado (EF2)Berea-This tornado developed in central Barnes County 5 miles southwest of Valley City and tracked southeast, caused EF-0 and EF-1 damage to trees and several homes. It continued over a ridge crossing the Sheyenne River, then caused EF-1 and EF-2 damage to several homes eventually crossing 117th Ave SE before lifting 3 miles south of Valley City. This tornado was almost 6 miles long.
May 2022HailBerea-Dime to quarter-sized hail fell for roughly 5 minutes.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindBerea-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2016Funnel CloudBerea-The funnel cloud was observed from Baldhill Dam.
July 2016Tornado (EF0)Berea-A brief touchdown was reported by a traveler on Interstate 94, west of Valley City, looking northeast across Hobart Lake. The touchdown appeared to be in an open field in central Hobart Township. Peak winds were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Berea-The tornado tracked northward for about a mile to about 1 mile west-southwest of the Baldhill Dam. The tornado snapped a wooden power pole, knocked down several poplar trees, and shredded a portion of an old corn field. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph.
May 2022HailBerea-no account filed
May 2019HailBerea-no account filed
July 2012HailBerea-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnes 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
Nobart (historical)2.8 miles10
Valley City4.9 miles11
North Valley City5.3 miles10
Sanborn6.9 miles10
Peak9.6 miles10
Odell (historical)10.5 miles8
Rogers11.1 miles8
Eckelson12.6 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q4891160The 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 1033834. 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.