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Grand Rapids, North Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grand Rapids Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58458. The Survey maps it on the Grand Rapids quadrangle.

Grand Rapids within LaMoure County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Grand Rapids between 2017 and 2019, burning about 16 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCURWOOD SEEFELDT
3 July 2017Fireworks10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10244
23 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE BY SCHOCKMANS
16 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service70318
24 May 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10237
17 October 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCEMETARY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in LaMoure County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Rapids in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindGrand Rapids$650,000The most severe wind damage observed during the storm survey in LaMoure County occurred in the town of Grand Rapids. Significant and widespread tree damage was observed, including numerous mature hardwood trees uprooted or snapped in half. Damage was also sustained to buildings, which consisted of roof damage, damage to pole barns, and several grain bins destroyed. Hey bales of 1300 pounds were also blown up to 500 yards across farm fields. ||The peak estimated wind speed of 105 mph was assigned based on damage indicators from the Enhanced Fujita Scale. It was later learned that wind sensing instruments on wind towers 10 miles west of Edgeley recorded a peak wind gust of 103 mph during the storm.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGrand Rapids$60,000Intense straight line thunderstorm winds damaged outbuildings on a farmstead just west of Grand Rapids. The roof on a barn was partially ripped off and a flag pole was bent over.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGrand Rapids$50,000Large field irrigators were tipped over between Grand Rapids and LaMoure.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindGrand Rapids-Corn crops were flattened to the ground.
July 2011HailGrand Rapids-There were no reports of damage associated with the large hail.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindGrand Rapids-Public reported could not keep vehicle on the road.
July 2003HailGrand Rapids-Several thousand acres of cropland damaged or destroyed.
June 2011HailGrand Rapids-no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaMoure 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
LaMoure7.2 miles13
Fairview Colony7.4 miles12
Berlin7.8 miles12
Dickey8.2 miles10
Benson Corner9.4 miles11
Saratoga Springs (historical)10.1 miles10
Marion11.4 miles10
Independence11.8 miles11

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 Grand RapidsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22034091The 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 1033642. 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.