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Burt, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Cannon Ball Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58646. The Survey maps it on the Burt quadrangle.

Burt within Hettinger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Burt between 2016 and 2019, burning about 20 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
21 September 2019Naturalunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBALE FIRE HWY 21
9 August 2016Natural5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSOUTH BURT
18 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBALER FIRE
17 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use12 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service081716 WHEAT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hettinger County

Storms near this place

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burt in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 19 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2010HailBurt$400,000County officials reported up to softball size hail in Burt. All vehicles left outside received major damage. The north side of homes sustained siding damage and broken windows. Roofs were also damaged from the large hail.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBurt$250,000Damaging winds of 80 mph were accompanied by 2.25 inch diameter hail to cause extensive damage to outbuildings and windows on a farm to the north of Burt. Grain bins were torn off their foundations and thrown into a nearby field. Crops were flattened.
August 2017HailBurt$60,000There was damage to vehicles and roofs.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindBurt$30,000A significant portion of a pole barn roof was lifted and folded back. A calf shelter was destroyed, wind bread panels were scattered, and a one-thousand gallon water tank blew over and rolled.
July 2010HailBurt$10,000Strong winds accompanied the large hail. The large hail resulted in damage to siding on a garage.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBurt-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
August 2019HailBurt-Extensive crop and garden damage occurred.
July 2017HailBurt-Barley crops were damaged by the hail.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Burt-Damage to farm yard fences and equipment.
June 2005Tornado (F1)Burt-Tornado remained in open country destroying a barn 1 northwest of Burt.
June 2001HailBurt-The hail caused a 3 mile wide damage path. Winds of 50 mph accompanied the storm.
July 2025HailBurt-no account filed
May 2024HailBurt-no account filed
June 2024HailBurt-no account filed
June 2019HailBurt-no account filed
July 2019HailBurt-no account filed
August 2019HailBurt-no account filed
July 2017HailBurt-no account filed
July 2017HailBurt-no account filed
July 2017HailBurt-no account filed
September 2015HailBurt-no account filed
July 2011HailBurt-no account filed
June 2001HailBurt-no account filed
August 1998HailBurt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hettinger 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
Watrous3.4 miles5
Bentley5.5 miles5
Mott9.1 miles5
Regent21.6 miles5
Havelock32.1 miles5
New England39.7 miles5

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 BurtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22033608The 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 1028207. 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.