BlockDresden, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in South Dresden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58249. The Survey maps it on the Langdon West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Langdon West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dresden between 2012 and 2017, burning about 305 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KIETH GUN FIRE |
| 7 October 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1 NORTH OF SCHROEDER FURNITURE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dresden in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 8 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Hail | Dresden | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail covered the yard. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Dresden | - | Hailstones ranged from 1 to 1.5 inches in size. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dresden | - | Numerous 4 to 8 inch diameter tree branches were blown down at a farmstead. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Dresden | - | A rope funnel was observed near the cloud base. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dresden | - | The tops of a few cottonwood trees were broken off. |
| July 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Dresden | - | A persistent wall cloud with funnel was observed. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Dresden | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Dresden | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Dresden | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dresden | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dresden | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Dresden | - | 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 Dresden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5306999 | 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 1028724. 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.