BlockRoth, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Scandia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58783. The Survey maps it on the Roth quadrangle. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Roth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Bottineau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Roth between 2002 and 2020, burning about 243 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 | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Turtle Mountain Agency | BRUSH HOG |
| 16 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | BRUSH HOG |
| 15 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | CHUCH |
| 13 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2053 |
| 1 June 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | HOLSTEN |
| 4 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-0002055 |
| 2 May 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | AZURE |
| 18 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 110 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | BUCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roth in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Tornado (EFU) | Roth | - | The tornado touched down east-northeast of Carbury. The tornado produced no damage to evaluate and so by National Weather Service policy was rated EF Unknown. This was the first of two tornadoes near this location within minutes of each other. The second tornado impacted structures and produced damage. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Roth | - | A tornado was reported at Lake Metigoshe, with all damage reports coming from the Canadian side of the border. The tornado lifted soon after crossing into North Dakota. Newspaper articles stated that there was damage near Lake Metigoshe in Manitoba, Canada. From the Bottineau County, North Dakota, Unites States side, no damage was reported. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Roth | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Roth | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Roth | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roth | - | 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 Roth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7370382 | 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 1031010. 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.