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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.

Moffit within Burleigh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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 1995

Regional 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 use3
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeTAHOE
28 August 2002Natural1.0 acresLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeSTERLING 4
25 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeRAILROAD
14 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeWRENZ IH
6 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMOFFIT RD. FIRE
3 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeSWIMMOUSE
14 April 1995Equipment and vehicle use45 acresLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeMOFFIT
11 October 2015Debris and open burning110 acresLong Lake National Wildlife RefugeMONROE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleigh County

Storms near this place

33 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMoffit$250,000Double 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 2018Thunderstorm WindMoffit$150,000Many large trees were uprooted. Power lines were down, and multiple buildings were heavily damaged.
June 2021Flash FloodMoffit$100,000Over five inches of rain was estimated to have fallen over far southeast Burleigh County. This heavy rain damaged roads and culverts.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMoffit$30,000Recorded 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 2014Thunderstorm WindMoffit$10,000Tree limbs were blown down due to the high winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMoffit-The public estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 mph.
July 2014HailMoffit-Strong winds accompanied the large hail.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMoffit-Recorded at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Remote Automated Weather Station.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMoffit-Winds were measured at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Remote Automated Weather Sensor site.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMoffit-Peak thunderstorm wind gust reported at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindMoffit-This thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Moffit-No damage reported at the time or from follow up calls to emergency management.
August 2006Flash FloodMoffit-2.20 inches of rain was reported to flood a farm yard.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
July 2023HailMoffit-no account filed
July 2022HailMoffit-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
July 2016HailMoffit-no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
June 2015HailMoffit-no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
June 2011HailMoffit-no account filed
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMoffit-no account filed
June 1999HailMoffit-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burleigh 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
Brittin6.6 miles5
Sterling9.4 miles7
McKenzie12.0 miles7
Driscoll14.0 miles7
Menoken16.1 miles10
Apple Valley19.1 miles10
Lincoln22.5 miles11
Pierce22.6 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 MoffitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6890368The 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.