BlockOswald, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Devillo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58030. The Survey maps it on the Sonora quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1904 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
5 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Oswald between 2016 and 2020, burning about 18 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018019 |
| 29 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2016010 |
| 23 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2020006 |
| 5 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2020034 |
| 25 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019022 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oswald in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oswald | - | Report from NDAWN mesonet site. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Oswald | - | A storm chaser reported a persistent wall cloud with a weak funnel. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Oswald | - | 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 1033894. 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.