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Eldridge, North Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Eldridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58401. The Survey maps it on the Eldridge quadrangle.

Eldridge within Stutsman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Eldridge between 1998 and 2020, burning about 802 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service202031
1 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service210312
7 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service140312
23 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service180312
15 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service60318
16 June 2012Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service40312
13 June 2012Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service40312
5 May 1998Smoking1.0 acresChase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management DistrictSYDNEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stutsman County

Storms near this place

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldridge in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Thunderstorm WindEldridge$80,000A semi-truck and a camper were overturned by the strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2013Flash FloodEldridge$10,000Two Township roads were reported washed out south of Eldridge and south of Interstate 94. Rain reports ranged from just over two inches to nearly four inches.
June 2014Funnel CloudEldridge-A brief funnel cloud was reported by law enforcement.
June 2013HailEldridge-Crop damage reported south of Eldridge and south of Interstate 94.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEldridge-No hail was reported with the strong thunderstorm winds.
August 1997Tornado (F0)Eldridge-brief touchdown
August 1997Tornado (F0)Eldridge-brief touchdown
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEldridge-no account filed
July 2025HailEldridge-no account filed
May 2022HailEldridge-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindEldridge-no account filed
July 2022HailEldridge-no account filed
August 2020HailEldridge-no account filed
August 2019Thunderstorm WindEldridge-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEldridge-no account filed
June 2010HailEldridge-no account filed
July 2007HailEldridge-no account filed
June 2001HailEldridge-no account filed
July 2001HailEldridge-no account filed
July 2001HailEldridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stutsman 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
New Minneapolis (historical)3.9 miles12
Parkhurst7.4 miles12
Jamestown7.6 miles13
Frontier Village8.1 miles13
Kloze9.2 miles11
Jamestown Junction10.0 miles11
Windsor10.1 miles7
Homer10.3 miles11

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 EldridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21857182The 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 1028841. 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.