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Raub, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Loquemont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58779. The Survey maps it on the Raub quadrangle.

Raub within McLean County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Raub between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,522 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 1 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
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
4 September 1998Natural800 acresFort Berthold AgencySHEPPERD
3 September 1998Natural1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyHANDCREW
26 September 2012Natural31 acresFort Berthold AgencyWIND ROW
10 September 2013Natural23 acresFort Berthold AgencyRUSTAD
9 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFort Berthold AgencySNOWBIRD
7 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use63 acresFort Berthold AgencyASHLEY
17 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyROWE
12 August 2012Natural1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyGILBERTSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raub in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2009FloodRaub$350,000Heavy overland flooding occurred as the result of rapid runoff from snowmelt. Flooding damaged many county and township roads along with 35 homes.
March 2009FloodRaub$205,000Overland flooding damaged many county and township roads. Thirty five homes were flooded. Flooding continued into April.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindRaub$35,000Winds collapsed a cabin being constructed at the Indian Hills Recreation Area.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindRaub$5,000Some power lines were blown down in the Raub area.
July 2024HailRaub-The hail combined with strong thunderstorm winds to produce damage a corn field.
August 2022HailRaub-Hail combined with winds gusting to over 70 mph to produce extensive crop damage to lentils, wheat, canola, and corn.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindRaub-A trained spotter estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Raub-This tornado touchdown occurred in the open country. No damage was reported. It was slow moving.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRaub-Severe thunderstorm wind gusts were accompanied by nickel size hail.
July 2007HailRaub-NWS storm survey completed for the tornado in Mclean County produced from the same supercell thunderstorm, revealed a path of crop destruction from near Raub to just south of Emmet. In some cases crop destruction looked to be 100 percent. The storm also produced a tornado and high thunderstorm wind of around 70 mph.
June 2002LightningRaub-Lightning struck a farm home burning it to the ground.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindRaub-Cooperative observer reported large branches down at a farmstead.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRaub-no account filed
July 2024Funnel CloudRaub-no account filed
August 2023HailRaub-no account filed
August 2023HailRaub-no account filed
August 2023HailRaub-no account filed
July 2020Funnel CloudRaub-no account filed
June 2015HailRaub-no account filed
June 2009HailRaub-no account filed
June 2004HailRaub-no account filed
July 1998HailRaub-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Roseglen11.0 miles6
White Shield12.0 miles6
Emmet21.8 miles6
Garrison33.9 miles8
Riverdale39.5 miles7
Max39.8 miles5
Coleharbor45.6 miles9
Riverdale Junction49.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1030846. 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.