BlockGalchutt, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Abercrombie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58075. The Survey maps it on the Galchutt quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.
On record in Galchutt
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
South Wild Rice Churchlisted 1982
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1904 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Galchutt quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Galchutt between 2017 and 2019, burning about 1 acre 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 | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 904 |
| 26 November 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 3245 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Galchutt in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Lightning | Galchutt | $30,000 | Lightning struck the steeple of a church, igniting a fire in the bell house. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Galchutt | - | One inch hail near mile marker 31 along I-29. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Galchutt | - | Report and photo posted via social media. Time based on radar. |
| August 2013 | Hail | Galchutt | - | Hail covered Interstate 29 near exit 31. |
| August 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Galchutt | - | A partially rain and hail wrapped tornado tracked intermittently for about three miles. The tornado snapped several trees in a series of shelterbelts and threw large tree limbs well into the fields. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph. The tornado likely crossed Interstate 29 near mile point 29 during this period. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Galchutt | - | The hail fell along Interstate 29 at the Galchutt exit (mile point 31). |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Galchutt | - | Heavy rain and wind gusts near sixty miles per hour occurred on Interstate 29 at mile marker 22. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Galchutt | - | Water overtopped county road 6 near the Wild Rice River. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Galchutt | - | no account filed |
| September 2003 | Hail | Galchutt | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Galchutt | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Galchutt | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitcairn | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Abercrombie | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Colfax | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Dwight | 6.9 miles | 11 | |
| Enloe | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Fairview Junction | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| Farmington | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Mooreton | 8.9 miles | 10 |
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 Galchutt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5518227 | 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 1029073. 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.