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Lostwood, North Dakota

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Lostwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58784. The Survey maps it on the Lostwood quadrangle.

Lostwood within Mountrail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 4 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

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lostwood between 1993 and 2019, burning about 361 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Natural1

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
27 September 2011Debris and open burning46 acresLostwood Wetland Management DistrictCP4#ESCAPE
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMCGINNITY HAY FIELD
26 June 2005Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
3 April 1993Debris and open burning310 acresLostwood Wetland Management DistrictC.PRAIRIE
15 December 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSECURE ENERGY FLARE
24 October 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTIM JOHNSON FIRE
11 October 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHESS WELL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lostwood: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sodium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSodiumUnknown

Every working recorded in Mountrail County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lostwood in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLostwood$8,000A trained spotter reported that two power poles were down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLostwood-A trained spotter reported that patio furniture and outdoor equipment were tossed by the thunderstorm winds.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindLostwood-Strong winds were reported.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLostwood-Peak wind speed measured at the Lostwood Remote Automated Weather System site.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindLostwood-A public report of severe thunderstorm winds was received with no reports of damage.
July 2001HailLostwood-Very heavy rain with the hail reduced visibility to less than 1/8th of a mile.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLostwood-no account filed
July 2021Funnel CloudLostwood-no account filed
August 2019HailLostwood-no account filed
July 2005HailLostwood-no account filed
July 2000HailLostwood-no account filed
July 1999HailLostwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mountrail 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
Wassaic5.4 miles4
Lunds Valley6.7 miles5
Stanley11.1 miles5
Ross13.1 miles4
Palermo14.0 miles4
Manitou15.0 miles4
White Earth19.6 miles4
Blaisdell20.8 miles4

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.

Wikidata item Q122558425The 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 1030024. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.