BlockBrampton, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Brampton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58017. The Survey maps it on the Newark quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Newark quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brampton in 2016, burning about 10 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BRAMPTON FIRE |
Storms near this place
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brampton in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 20 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | $40,000 | Three 5,000 bushel steel grain bins were torn off their anchor bolts and destroyed. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Brampton | - | Corn fields damaged. Hail size estimated. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Brampton | - | Dime to Quarter-sized hail fell across central portions of Brampton Township, along with strong winds. There was a swath that had a width of one quarter to one half mile wide, and extended for around one mile. This swath contained damaged crops, with corn stalks stripped and about 80 percent of the soybeans defoliated. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet station. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | A few trees were blown down in a shelterbelt. Wind driven hail was also evident in fields across southeast Brampton Township. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Brampton | - | Heavy rain accompanied the hail. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station near the South Dakota border. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Brampton | - | The hail fell across portions of western Brampton Township. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Brampton | - | Pea to penny sized hail fell. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | A basketball hoop set was blown down along with several large tree branches. A trampoline was blown onto a tractor nearly a hundred feet away. |
| May 2007 | Flood | Brampton | - | Many rural roads were closed along the Wild Rice River between Brampton and Rutland due to overland flooding. The county extension agent estimated about 10 percent of the cropland was washed out by the heavy rain. |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Brampton | - | Many township roads were flooded along the Wild Rice River between Brampton and Rutland. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Brampton | - | Wind driven hail damaged shingles and shattered 15 windows. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | Large tree limbs were broken off. A television antenna and a satellite dish were also torn off a roof. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Brampton | - | Windows were broken out by the wind driven hail. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | A single-wide 35 foot mobile home was rolled off its foundation and destroyed. An empty fuel oil tank was blown into its side. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Brampton | - | Water was reported over roads. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Brampton | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Brampton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straubville | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Cogswell | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Havana | 8.9 miles | 6 | |
| Nicholson | 9.3 miles | 7 | |
| Forman | 10.8 miles | 7 | |
| Harlem (historical) | 12.9 miles | 7 | |
| Hample | 14.5 miles | 8 | |
| Rutland | 14.7 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1028113. 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.