Moffit, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Long Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58560. It stands on Moffit Butte. The Survey maps it on the Moffit quadrangle. It stands 1,759 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Moffit quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Moffit between 1995 and 2018, burning about 179 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | TAHOE |
| 28 August 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | STERLING 4 |
| 25 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | RAILROAD |
| 14 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | WRENZ IH |
| 6 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MOFFIT RD. FIRE |
| 3 May 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | SWIMMOUSE |
| 14 April 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | MOFFIT |
| 11 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 110 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | MONROE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moffit in 33 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 23 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | $250,000 | Double poled wood transmission lines were snapped in half. A heavy ranch sign with three foot long concrete anchors was ripped out of the ground. A camper was flipped off of the highway and tossed over a tree row 25 yards from the road. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | $150,000 | Many large trees were uprooted. Power lines were down, and multiple buildings were heavily damaged. |
| June 2021 | Flash Flood | Moffit | $100,000 | Over five inches of rain was estimated to have fallen over far southeast Burleigh County. This heavy rain damaged roads and culverts. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | $30,000 | Recorded at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Remote Automated Weather Station. The intense thunderstorm winds created four to five foot high waves on Long Lake, resulting in damage to dikes and railroad ties along the lake shore. No reports of other damage to structures in the area were received. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | $10,000 | Tree limbs were blown down due to the high winds. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | The public estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 mph. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Moffit | - | Strong winds accompanied the large hail. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | Recorded at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Remote Automated Weather Station. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | Winds were measured at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Remote Automated Weather Sensor site. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | Peak thunderstorm wind gust reported at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | This thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Moffit | - | No damage reported at the time or from follow up calls to emergency management. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Moffit | - | 2.20 inches of rain was reported to flood a farm yard. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Hail | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moffit | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Moffit | - | 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 Moffit | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6890368 | 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 1030264. 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.



