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Bloom, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Bloom Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58401. The Survey maps it on the Bloom quadrangle.

Bloom within Stutsman 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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Bloom between 2000 and 2019, burning about 154 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10412
4 July 2016Fireworks1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service40316
12 June 2019Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10319
12 June 2012Smoking2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10312
1 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10239
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service170218
3 May 2018Debris and open burning80 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service150218
25 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10238

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stutsman 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 Bloom: 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
Scherbenski Excavting PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stutsman County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloom in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBloom$2,000A power line blew down onto the road.
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Bloom-The tornado briefly touched down southwest of Spiritwood from the storm that eventually produced the damaging tornado that developed east of Spiritwood and tracked into Barnes County. This occurred in an open field and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown).
May 2014HailBloom-The large hail stones were lying on the road as the officer drove through the area. No damage was reported.
May 2014HailBloom-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stutsman 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
Reeves4.0 miles10
Jamestown Junction4.8 miles11
Frontier Village5.0 miles13
Jamestown5.1 miles13
Homer5.7 miles11
Spiritwood6.4 miles10
Johnson7.1 miles11
Parkhurst8.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1028044. 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.