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Nolan, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rich Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58064. The Survey maps it on the Page quadrangle.

Nolan within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Nolan in 2019, 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
21 May 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRR FIRE NEAR PAGE
15 May 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nolan in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 hail. 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
June 2020HailNolan-Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail was reported.
July 2011HailNolan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Page1.7 miles8
Walden7.5 miles8
Ayr7.6 miles9
Erie9.1 miles9
Erie Junction9.7 miles9
Mason12.9 miles8
Absaraka14.0 miles11
Buffalo15.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033888. 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.