Nortonville, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kennison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58454. The Survey maps it on the Nortonville quadrangle.

Nortonville within LaMoure County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1896 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Nortonville quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nortonville in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2011	Tornado (EF3)	Nortonville	1 hurt, $500,000	A National Weather Service storm survey confirmed that an EF3 tornado touched down around seven miles southeast of Nortonville, then moved southeast before lifting six miles south southeast of Berlin. This was a long tracked tornado across parts of Russell, Wano, Henrietta, and Badger townships. Damage was observed all along the tornado path, with no fewer than five farmsteads impacted, some very severely. One injury occurred where a farm home was damaged beyond repair. There were no deaths. The worst damage consisted of a farm house completely destroyed, outbuildings completely destroyed, a vehicle tossed up to one half mile away from its original location and almost unrecognizable as a motor vehicle, and a significant number of very large hard and soft wood trees both snapped and uprooted. The violent nature of tornadoes was evidenced by the twisted and mangled trees. In one case farm animals were killed. The tornado damage corresponded to EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. From that it was determined that wind speeds were on the order of 165 miles per hour.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Nortonville	-	Corn fields across central LaMoure County were flattened by strong thunderstorm winds. Local residents were unsure if the corn was a partial or complete loss.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Nortonville	-	Corn fields across central LaMoure County were flattened by strong thunderstorm winds. Local residents were unsure if the corn was a partial or complete loss.
July 2001	Tornado (F1)	Nortonville	-	Tornado touched down in open country damaging a farmstead and ripping off a roof and rafters to a construction company in rural Judd.
June 2022	Hail	Nortonville	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Nortonville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaMoure 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Deisem	8.4 miles	11
Jud	8.6 miles	10
Adrian	10.2 miles	10
Saint George (historical)	12.5 miles	11
Saratoga Springs (historical)	12.8 miles	10
Edgeley	13.8 miles	11
Medberry	14.1 miles	11
Alfred	14.2 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q43089882

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 1033659. 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.

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.