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Manitou, North Dakota

4 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Manitou Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58776. The Survey maps it on the Manitou quadrangle.

Manitou 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

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Manitou between 2005 and 2019, burning about 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
26 September 2018Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM 80
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMANITOU NORTH
17 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBARSTAD FIRE
4 July 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBELIK FIRE
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH
9 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMANITOU FIRE
26 June 2005Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
29 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM 78

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manitou in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 2020Thunderstorm WindManitou-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the Emergency Manager.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Manitou-This tornado touched down in rural Mountrail County. It impacted no structures and so there were no reports of damage. It was rated EF0.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindManitou-no account filed
July 2024HailManitou-no account filed
June 2017HailManitou-no account filed
July 2017HailManitou-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
Ross5.0 miles4
White Earth8.0 miles4
Stanley13.1 miles5
Lunds Valley13.2 miles5
Wassaic14.6 miles4
Lostwood15.0 miles4
Belden19.3 miles4
Palermo21.6 miles4

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1030084. 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.