Denbigh, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Denbigh Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58788. The Survey maps it on the Denbigh quadrangle. It stands 1,512 feet above sea level.
On record in Denbigh
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Norway Lutheran Church and Cemeterylisted 1994
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1949 USGS Denbigh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Denbigh quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Denbigh between 1998 and 2018, burning about 79 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-12 |
| 15 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GENETSKY |
| 7 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-5 TONNESSON |
| 21 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 28 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | BANTRY1 |
| 21 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | KITZMAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Denbigh in 9 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 8 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 | Funnel Cloud | Denbigh | - | A funnel cloud briefly formed, then dissipated. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Denbigh | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Denbigh | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Denbigh | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Denbigh | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Denbigh | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Denbigh | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Denbigh | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Denbigh | - | 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 Denbigh | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5256602 | 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 1028657. 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.




