BlockNewman, North Dakota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Rush River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58012. The Survey maps it on the Mapleton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mapleton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
4 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Newman in 2019, burning about 7 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 05-15-2019-2 |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 11 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 5/11/2019 |
| 24 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newman in 7 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newman | - | NDAWN station 5E of Amenia reported a 67 mph wind gust at the 10 meter height sensor. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newman | - | NDAWN station 5E Amenia measured a wind gust to 59 mph. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newman | - | Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station at the 10 meter level. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newman | - | The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newman | - | Numerous large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts across northern Rush River and Berlin townships. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Newman | - | A persistent wall cloud and funnel were observed from Interstate 94. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newman | - | 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 1033885. 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.