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Glasston, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in St. Thomas Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58236. The Survey maps it on the Glasston quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Glasston within Pembina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Glasston in 2018, burning about 120 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/undetermined1

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 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined120 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLYLE SHEPARD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Pembina County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glasston in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGlasston-A large tree and numerous other large branches were blown down.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Glasston-A brief touchdown was reported.
June 2020HailGlasston-no account filed
August 2002HailGlasston-no account filed
May 1998HailGlasston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pembina 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
Dimock (historical)3.9 miles10
Saint Thomas6.0 miles11
Hamilton7.1 miles9
Cavalier11.1 miles10
Hensel11.7 miles9
Bathgate11.9 miles9
Fleece13.3 miles14
Crystal14.0 miles10

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 GlasstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5567190The 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 1029132. 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.