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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.

Denbigh within McHenry County

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

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

6 since 1998

Regional 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 use3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-12
15 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGENETSKY
7 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use60 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-5 TONNESSON
21 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
28 April 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugeBANTRY1
21 April 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugeKITZMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this place

9 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2010Funnel CloudDenbigh-A funnel cloud briefly formed, then dissipated.
September 2025HailDenbigh-no account filed
July 2024HailDenbigh-no account filed
July 2024HailDenbigh-no account filed
July 2024HailDenbigh-no account filed
July 2024HailDenbigh-no account filed
June 2016HailDenbigh-no account filed
July 2016HailDenbigh-no account filed
June 2007HailDenbigh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
Riga6.5 miles7
Milroy9.1 miles7
Towner9.9 miles7
Bantry12.7 miles7
Granville13.9 miles7
Verendrye15.6 miles6
Karlsruhe15.6 miles7
Cole Ford16.2 miles6

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 DenbighAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5256602The 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.