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Camp Grafton, North Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Creel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58301. The Survey maps it on the Camp Grafton quadrangle.

Camp Grafton within Ramsey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

839 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 839 fires within 5 miles of Camp Grafton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,525 acres in total. None started naturally. 727 were 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
Arson/incendiarism727
Debris and open burning96
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks4
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2017Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWANG
5 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyTH1114
4 September 2018Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFort Totten AgencyROTELLA CAN
4 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyJACOBS
3 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyCOUCH
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresFort Totten AgencyMS1611
24 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFort Totten Agencynot named
21 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyWHITE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Camp Grafton: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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
Cavanaugh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Soper Brothers Const PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Strong Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Grafton in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindCamp Grafton-Peak wind measured at an NDDOT RWIS station along ND20. A few large trees were blown down around Devils Lake. Shingles were blown off a house as posted via social media.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCamp Grafton-Peak wind was measured by an NDDOT RWIS station along Highway 20.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCamp Grafton-The wind gust was measured by a North Dakota DOT RWIS site.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCamp Grafton-The wind gust was measured by a ND DOT RWIS sensor.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCamp Grafton-The wind gust was measured at the highway 20 RWIS station on Devils Lake.
June 2013HailCamp Grafton-Dime to half dollar size hail fell near the Shooting Star Casino.
August 2009HailCamp Grafton-The hail fell at Camp Grafton, south of Devils Lake.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCamp Grafton-Strong winds blew down trees and damaged roofs at Camp Grafton.

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
Lakewood Park1.1 miles14
Devils Lake4.5 miles14
Darby7.1 miles14
Grand Harbor8.5 miles14
Keith9.3 miles14
Essex10.3 miles8
Sweetwater11.3 miles14
Ramsey11.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Camp GraftonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5027199The 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 1028258. 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.