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Fillmore, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Impark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58332. The Survey maps it on the Fillmore quadrangle. It stands 1,594 feet above sea level.

Fillmore within Benson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fillmore between 2016 and 2020, burning about 2 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
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceARNOLD FIRE
15 June 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceW. BAUSTAD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Benson County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fillmore in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 9 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008HailFillmore$20,000Hail fell for twenty minutes, resulting in several sections of damaged crop land in Impark Township.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFillmore-Trees were uprooted with power outages also reported.
June 2011Heavy RainFillmore-An ARB observer measured 1.50 inches of rain in 30 minutes, from 8 pm to 830 pm CDT. There were also multiple periods of one half inch hail.
August 2007HailFillmore-The larger hail fell for a couple minutes, shortly after the heaviest rain.
July 2017HailFillmore-no account filed
July 2016HailFillmore-no account filed
August 2007HailFillmore-no account filed
June 2004HailFillmore-no account filed
July 2003HailFillmore-no account filed
July 2000HailFillmore-no account filed
June 1996HailFillmore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benson 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
Baker8.2 miles6
Esmond10.2 miles6
Isabel11.2 miles6
Knox12.5 miles7
Pleasant Lake12.5 miles7
Harlow15.0 miles6
York15.1 miles7
Hesper16.2 miles9

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 FillmoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5448843The 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 1028956. 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.