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Juanita, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Florance Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58443. The Survey maps it on the Juanita quadrangle.

Juanita within Foster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Juanita in 2015, burning about 31 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRANDY STEDMAN
15 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTIM HOYT
16 November 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 200 JUANITA CORNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Foster County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Juanita in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJuanita$150,000Measured wind gusts to 74 mph combined with quarter size hail to cause widespread damage in the Juanita area. One foot diameter trees were broken down. Wind driven hail caused damage to windows, vehicles, and siding. A grain truck was knocked over, and a door was torn off a quonset hut. Crops were damaged, with some corn flattened. Other reports of wind included estimates as high as 85 mph.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Juanita-This tornado touched down in the open country. There were no impacts to structures and so no reports of damage.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindJuanita-Several trees uprooted, numerous branches broken, roofs peeled off trailers, homes and lake cabins.
June 2010HailJuanita-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindJuanita-no account filed
June 1997HailJuanita-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Foster 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
Glenfield7.0 miles10
McHenry7.1 miles8
Grace City7.3 miles12
Bordulac16.8 miles10
Melville21.9 miles9
Carrington23.7 miles9
Guptill24.1 miles10
Barlow24.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029698. 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.