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Huff, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58554. The Survey maps it on the Huff quadrangle.

Huff within Morton County

On record in Huff

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Huff between 2002 and 2018, burning about 11,307 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2005Natural2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2004Natural450 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDESERT
30 July 2005Natural4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRIFLE RANGE
2 July 2016Fireworks1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHARMON LAKE
25 June 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-295
22 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1804 FIRE
20 June 2002Natural2,554 acresLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeBISRURAL 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huff in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 6 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 2014Thunderstorm WindHuff$100,000Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds with damage to structures and crops.
July 2014HailHuff$45,000Strong thunderstorm winds accompanied the large hail and broke windows and damaged vehicles and equipment.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHuff$30,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in a barn roof being blown off and carried 200 yards.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHuff$20,000Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted two foot in diameter oak trees near Huff.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHuff$1,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHuff-Large hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2014HailHuff-Strong thunderstorm winds accompanied the large hail.
July 2010HailHuff-The large hail was accompanied by strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHuff-no account filed
September 2022HailHuff-no account filed
August 2019HailHuff-no account filed
June 2005HailHuff-no account filed
June 1995HailHuff-no account filed
July 1995HailHuff-no account filed
August 1995HailHuff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morton 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
Fort Rice7.6 miles8
Schmidt7.7 miles8
Saint Anthony13.9 miles7
Lynwood13.9 miles7
On-a-Slant Village (historical)14.3 miles11
Twin City Estates17.0 miles11
Frontier Homesteads18.3 miles11
Meadow Park18.4 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 HuffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5929452The 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 1029567. 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.