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Cashel, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Martin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58225. The Survey maps it on the Oakwood quadrangle.

Cashel within Walsh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cashel between 2017 and 2020, burning about 283 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
22 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceNORTH SALT LAKE
21 May 2018Debris and open burning250 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLANDFILL
11 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTRUMAN THOMPSON
3 November 2020Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service74TH ST
24 October 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLESSARD FARM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walsh County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cashel in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindCashel-The wind gust was measured by a Davis personal weather station.
July 2008Funnel CloudCashel-A persistent wall cloud with a funnel was observed.

Every storm recorded in Walsh 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
Oakwood4.0 miles9
Herrick4.2 miles13
Auburn7.6 miles11
Grafton7.8 miles9
Herriott10.2 miles9
Kellogg10.8 miles9
Nash11.4 miles8
Warsaw13.2 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122555297The 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 1028293. 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.