BlockRenville, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1958. It stands in Renville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58761. The Survey maps it on the Renville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 5 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.
- 1950 USGS Renville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Renville between 2008 and 2019, burning about 510 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 | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-1906 |
| 24 March 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GREEK |
Storms near this place
4 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Renville in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Renville | - | A funnel cloud briefly dropped from a rotating wall cloud. |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Renville | - | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Renville | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Renville | - | 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 1030882. 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.