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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Burt quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Mott quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2016Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BALE FIRE HWY 21 |
| 9 August 2016 | Natural | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SOUTH BURT |
| 18 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BALER FIRE |
| 17 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 12 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 081716 WHEAT FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Hail | Burt | $400,000 | County 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | $250,000 | Damaging 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 2017 | Hail | Burt | $60,000 | There was damage to vehicles and roofs. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | $30,000 | A 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 2010 | Hail | Burt | $10,000 | Strong winds accompanied the large hail. The large hail resulted in damage to siding on a garage. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burt | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Burt | - | Extensive crop and garden damage occurred. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Burt | - | Barley crops were damaged by the hail. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Burt | - | Damage to farm yard fences and equipment. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Burt | - | Tornado remained in open country destroying a barn 1 northwest of Burt. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Burt | - | The hail caused a 3 mile wide damage path. Winds of 50 mph accompanied the storm. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| July 2019 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| September 2015 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Burt | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Burt | - | 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 Burt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22033608 | 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 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.



