BlockHarlow, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Butte Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58346. The Survey maps it on the Harlow quadrangle. It stands 1,644 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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
- 1958 USGS Harlow quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Harlow in 2019, burning about 11 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/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BROSSART |
| 26 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HOFSTRAND FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harlow in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harlow | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts in southern Butte Valley Township. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harlow | - | The gust was measured by mobile mesonet equipment. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Harlow | - | The hail ranged in size from pea on up. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Harlow | - | The storm also dropped 1.10 inches of rain. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Harlow | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harlow | - | A large tree branch fell and damaged a power line. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Harlow | - | A brief touchdown occurred in a "bookend vortice" area along the north edge of a developing downburst wind core. The tornado was estimated to have maximum winds of around 110 mph. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harlow | - | An old barn was blown down and the roof was torn off a pole barn. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harlow | - | A barn was blown down. |
| July 1997 | Flash Flood | Harlow | - | Several roads were quickly flooded with water and ditches were full. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Harlow | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Harlow | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Harlow | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Harlow | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Harlow | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Harlow | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Harlow | - | 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.
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 Harlow | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5658931 | 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 1029319. 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.