BlockMunster, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Munster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58356. The Survey maps it on the Munster quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1948 USGS Cathay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Munster quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Munster in 2017, burning about 5 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 burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | JENSRUD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Munster in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munster | - | Extensive crop damage from wind driven hail was reported as extending from around 12 miles south of Maddock into western Grandfield Township nearly 8 miles west-southwest of Sheyenne. A personal weather station measured 58 mph just west of this location and along the hail damage path. Time estimated based on radar. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Munster | - | Quarter to golf-ball sized hail fell, which caused some crop damage. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Munster | - | Torrential rains fell along with numerous nickel to walnut sized hail. The hail began small but increased in size later on. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Munster | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail just covered the ground. |
| July 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Munster | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Munster | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033883. 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.