BlockGarske, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Webster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58382. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle.
On record in Garske
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
Sons of Jacob Cemeterylisted 2017
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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
- 1957 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Garske in 2019, burning about 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BAKER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garske in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 9 hail, 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Hail | Garske | - | Public reports quarter sized hail 3 W Garske. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garske | - | Four large 20,000 bushel steel grain bins were partially caved in at a farmstead. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Garske | - | Most of the hail was dime to nickel sized. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Garske | - | The hail was mainly quarter to half dollar sized. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garske | - | Three inch diameter tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garske | - | A 5,000 bushel steel grain bin was blown down by the strong winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garske | - | Very strong winds occurred across central Sullivan Township, accompanied by pea sized hail and 0.40 inches of rain. Some area crops were flattened. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Garske | - | An observer also measured 1.51 inches of rain. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Garske | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail fell along with very heavy rain. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garske | - | The Garske elevator was heavily damaged. Trees and power lines were down all around. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Garske | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Garske | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Garske | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Garske | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webster | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Starkweather | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Sweetwater | 9.8 miles | 14 | |
| Saint Joe | 11.1 miles | 7 | |
| Grand Harbor | 14.2 miles | 14 | |
| Penn | 14.6 miles | 10 | |
| Darby | 14.9 miles | 14 | |
| Devils Lake | 16.9 miles | 14 |
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 Garske | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22034061 | 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 1029088. 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.