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Crete, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Denver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58040. The Survey maps it on the Crete quadrangle.

Crete within Sargent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crete between 2017 and 2018, 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 burning2

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
30 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePICKLE FIRE
21 April 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service282017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sargent County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crete in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 8 hail, 7 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCrete$500,000Three of four 44,000 bushel grain bins were blown over at the Crete Elevator complex. The fourth, which was full of grain, remained standing. Eight 40,000 bushel grains bins were also damaged and one 40,000 bushel grain bin was blown down.
April 2019FloodCrete$50,000no account filed
March 2009FloodCrete$5,000no account filed
April 2009FloodCrete$5,000no account filed
May 2009FloodCrete$5,000no account filed
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Crete-A tornado tracked intermittently for nearly two miles from just north of HWY 13 through the buns slough area of central Denver Township, o around 5 NNE of Crete by 408 PM CDT. The tornado repeatedly showed a dust plume but stayed mainly over open grassland. Peak winds estimated to 70 mph, with a max width of 25 yards.
October 2021Funnel CloudCrete-A persistent funnel cloud developed and tracked just to the east of Crete.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCrete-Numerous tree branches were blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCrete-Several three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down in western Verner Township. A wind sensor several miles to the west measured wind gusts to 60 mph.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCrete-Several 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down in a shelterbelt.
June 2005Flash FloodCrete-Local fields were flooded and water covered a farm access road.
August 2004HailCrete-Hail covered the ground.
June 2014HailCrete-no account filed
April 2011FloodCrete-no account filed
April 2010FloodCrete-no account filed
March 2010FloodCrete-no account filed
July 2008HailCrete-no account filed
May 2005HailCrete-no account filed
July 2002HailCrete-no account filed
July 2001HailCrete-no account filed
July 2000HailCrete-no account filed
June 1998HailCrete-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sargent 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
Hample4.4 miles8
Nicholson8.0 miles7
Stirum8.3 miles7
Harlem (historical)8.8 miles7
Straubville11.3 miles7
Cogswell11.5 miles7
Gwinner16.0 miles8
Brampton17.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1028532. 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.