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Kloten, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58254. The Survey maps it on the Kloten quadrangle.

Kloten within Nelson 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

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Kloten between 2008 and 2019, burning about 767 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
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
17 June 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHAUGO PASTURE
7 May 2019Debris and open burning50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSCOTT LARSON PLOT
14 May 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDARREN FOUGNER
4 April 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRETZLAFF
23 April 2018Debris and open burning320 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRETZLAFF RESEVOUR
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMAVIS NAAS CRP
18 October 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCITY BURN SITE
16 October 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMILE 141 HWY 32

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kloten in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 9 hail, 3 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
August 2018HailKloten-Crops were damaged by nickel to quarter sized hail.
September 2017HailKloten-A few half dollar sized hailstones fell just north of highway 15, in northwest Lee Township.
July 2014HailKloten-There were also numerous tree branches broken down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKloten-Trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKloten-A big tree was blown down and power was lost.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindKloten-4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
July 2019HailKloten-no account filed
April 2005HailKloten-no account filed
April 2005HailKloten-no account filed
September 2005HailKloten-no account filed
July 2005HailKloten-no account filed
June 1999HailKloten-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Aneta5.3 miles8
McVille6.3 miles10
Pekin14.4 miles11
Harrisburg (historical)16.3 miles11
Petersburg20.7 miles7
Tolna20.8 miles11
Michigan21.4 miles7
Wamduska (historical)22.1 miles11

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 KlotenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6421403The 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 1029757. 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.