BlockJosephine, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Aurora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58357. The Survey maps it on the Josephine quadrangle. It stands 1,542 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1932 USGS Flora quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Flora quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Josephine quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Josephine between 2006 and 2015, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Fireworks | 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 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | CIRCLE FIRE |
| 30 June 2008 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 211 |
| 10 May 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 24 acres | Fort Totten Agency | TIGER |
| 3 April 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | 152 |
| 19 April 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 148 |
| 15 April 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 105 |
| 25 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 495 |
| 22 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 488 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Josephine in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2023 | Hail | Josephine | - | Trained Spotter reports 1.5 inch hail 4 miles SW of Oberon, ND. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Josephine | - | Dime to quarter size hail and very heavy rain was reported. Periods of hail off and on for 20 minutes. |
| June 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Josephine | - | Persistent wall cloud reported with possible funnel located to wnw. Spotter located near Sheyenne. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Josephine | - | A pole barn was blown down by the strong wind. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Josephine | - | 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 Josephine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6288287 | 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 1029696. 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.