Geneseo, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Kingston Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58053. The Survey maps it on the Geneseo quadrangle.

Geneseo within Sargent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Geneseo quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Geneseo between 2002 and 2016, burning about 9 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	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	DITCH FIRE
30 July 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	BILL WALSH
15 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge	CASE
15 May 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WETTSTEIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sargent County

Storms near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geneseo in 9 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 hail, 1 tornado. 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
July 2025	Hail	Geneseo	-	Public observed mostly pea to nickel sized hail, with up to quarter sized hail intermixed. Time estimated by radar.
June 2012	Hail	Geneseo	-	The hail ranged from nickel to quarter size.
August 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Geneseo	-	Richland County dispatch relayed a public report of a tornado touchdown about 1 mile south of Geneseo in Sargent County. The tornado tracked east for about 1 mile and the crossed into Richland County around 836 pm CDT where it continued for about 1 more mile before lifting around 838 pm CDT. No significant damage was reported as the tornado stayed over mainly opened fields.
April 2006	Hail	Geneseo	-	The hail fell along the Sargent and Richland County line.
July 2003	Hail	Geneseo	-	The hail was accompanied by strong winds.
September 2008	Hail	Geneseo	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Geneseo	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Geneseo	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Geneseo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sargent 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cayuga	5.6 miles	9
Ransom City (historical)	5.8 miles	9
Hamlin	6.4 miles	10
Rutland	12.3 miles	8
De Lamere	13.7 miles	10
Milnor	15.9 miles	10
Forman	19.1 miles	7
Sundale Colony	19.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029097. 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.