BlockNorthgate, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in North Star Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58737. The Survey maps it on the Northgate quadrangle. It stands 1,860 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1949 USGS Northgate quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Flaxton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Northgate between 2012 and 2020, burning about 174 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2016 | Other causes | 40 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RON COREY |
| 22 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GANSKO |
| 22 March 2012 | Debris and open burning | 133 acres | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | A-11 |
| 20 October 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 10/20/2018 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Northgate in 15 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northgate | $100,000 | Intense Rear Flank Downdraft straight line winds did extensive damage to a farmstead. Damage included a garage destroyed, several grain bins destroyed, a quonset destroyed, damage to a home, and several trees uprooted. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northgate | $55,000 | Power lines and small trees were downed due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. Several empty oil storage tanks were also damaged. Power was out to the local area near Northgate. Three tornadoes also touched down in Burke County this day. See the entries for those three tornadoes as well. |
| July 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Northgate | $30,000 | Oil storage tanks were reported damaged from a tornado east of Northgate. The damage corresponded to high end EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale. From that it was determined that wind speed were around 85 mph. There were no other damage reports. There were no injuries and no deaths. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northgate | $15,000 | Three large trees were blown down around the house, with additional trees down around the remainder of the property. |
| August 2006 | Lightning | Northgate | $11,000 | Lightning struck a 2005 Chevrolet Duramax diesel pickup truck with two male occupants inside. According to newspaper reports all of the lights came on and the horn started blowing. The radio antenna was blasted off its mount and the top passenger side of the cab was burned. One of the occupants said sparks were flying and bouncing around the bed of the truck and there was a smell of smoke. The trucks electrical system was destroyed. Neither occupant was injured. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northgate | - | Very heavy rain accompanied the strong winds. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Northgate | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Northgate | - | 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 Northgate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14708374 | 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 1030491. 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.