BlockEdmunds, North Dakota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Edmunds Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58476. The Survey maps it on the Pingree quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1900 USGS Pingree quadrangle1:62500
- 1900 USGS Pingree quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Pingree quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1991 USGS Pingree quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Edmunds between 1999 and 2005, burning about 1,762 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2001 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge | BALE |
| 25 April 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | TH1710 |
| 12 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1,760 acres | Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge | KENSEL 1 |
| 3 October 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edmunds in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edmunds | $2,000,000 | Damage to 200 farm dwellings, including elevators, dams and silos. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Edmunds | $10,000 | Water was reported over the roads near Bordulac over Foster County. Heavy rain also fell over rural north central Stutsman County with flash flooding there as well. |
| June 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Edmunds | - | Funnel went up and down multiple times. |
| June 2019 | Tornado (EF0) | Edmunds | - | The tornado touched down west of Pingree in a field and was rated EF-0. |
| March 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Edmunds | - | Hopper bin thrown 300 yards. Minor tree damage. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edmunds | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edmunds | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edmunds | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Edmunds | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Edmunds | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Edmunds | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Edmunds | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1028814. 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.