BlockCuba, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Cuba Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58072. The Survey maps it on the Fingal quadrangle. It stands 1,352 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1897 USGS Tower quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fingal quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cuba in 2016, burning about 3 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 burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FINGAL FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuba in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Cuba | - | This tornado and the preceding funnel were viewed from several angles and locations. The tornado snapped or shattered trees in at least one shelterbelt. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Cuba | - | Large hail fell with very heavy rain. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Cuba | - | 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.
| Wikidata item Q5191935 | 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 1033844. 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.