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Grandin, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Grandin City. It lies in ZIP code area 58038. The Survey maps it on the Grandin quadrangle.

Grandin within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Grandin in 2016, burning about 12 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/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1608019
18 May 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1605009
24 April 2016Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1604009
11 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1604008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grandin in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 13 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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 2008HailGrandin$50,000The hail was mostly quarter sized.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGrandin$50,000Two large grain bins were blown down along with numerous trees.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Grandin$5,000This tornado tracked for a distance of nearly four miles, to around four miles south-southwest of Grandin. Initially the tornado tracked southward for about 1.5 miles before turning southeast. Farm shelterbelts along the route had numerous large tree branches and tree limbs broken down. The long rope tornado was partially obscured in heavy rains at times. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
July 2022Heavy RainGrandin-A report of 4.42 inches of rain was reported as measured at a personal weather station.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGrandin-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
June 2015HailGrandin-Just a few nickel sized hailstones were reported.
June 2015HailGrandin-The hail fell along Interstate 29 between mile points 88 and 90.
June 2013HailGrandin-Dime to quarter sized hail fell near Grandin.
August 2012HailGrandin-Pea to nickel sized hail fell near mile point 91 on Interstate 29.
August 2012HailGrandin-The hail fell along Interstate 29 north of Gardner.
August 2011HailGrandin-A few walnut sized hail fell.
June 2008HailGrandin-The hail fell at mile marker 89.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindGrandin-A Davis wind sensor measured the wind gust.
August 2005HailGrandin-The hail fell along the Traill/Cass county line near the Red River, before crossing into Norman county.
September 2005Flash FloodGrandin-About 1.50 inches of precipitation fell in less than an hour. Farm fields and yards were flooded.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGrandin-A 62 mph wind gust was measured by a Davis system.
July 2017HailGrandin-no account filed
July 2009HailGrandin-no account filed
June 2005Funnel CloudGrandin-no account filed
June 2003HailGrandin-no account filed
August 2002HailGrandin-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudGrandin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Gardner6.4 miles8
Hunter11.9 miles8
Argusville13.2 miles9
Arthur14.7 miles8
Brooktree Park17.1 miles9
Newman17.7 miles13
Vance18.1 miles8
Harwood18.9 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029206. 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.