BlockSarles, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Sarles City. It lies in ZIP code area 58372. The Survey maps it on the Sarles quadrangle.
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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Sarles quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sarles between 1998 and 2019, burning about 171 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 16 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | AMBLE |
| 25 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.5 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | AMBLE |
| 2 May 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | SHELDON |
| 21 April 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | TH1815 |
| 16 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 140 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | AMBLE |
| 15 April 2015 | Other causes | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MURPHY JOHNSON FARM |
| 14 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Turtle Mountain Agency | PERRY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sarles in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 5 flood, 4 hail, 2 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 2008 | Hail | Sarles | $100,000 | A brief funnel cloud was reported to be about four miles north of the Canadian border in southern Manitoba. Hail damaged roofs and decks in town. Several large tree branches were blown down by the strong winds. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Sarles | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Flood | Sarles | $50,000 | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Flood | Sarles | $5,000 | A 51 year old man from the Hannah, N.D., area is believed to have died from exposure while walking home after his pickup got stuck on a flooded road late Tuesday night, April 30th. His vehicle was left partially submerged in a ditch nearly 8 miles east of his home. |
| May 2013 | Flood | Sarles | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarles | - | Received a public report of a large cottonwood tree uprooted near Sarles. This report was received, along with photos, via social media. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensor reports. Fencing was blown down around a swimming pool. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarles | - | Crops were flattened in the Sarles area and objects were blown over at a construction site. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Sarles | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Flood | Sarles | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Sarles | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Sarles | - | 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 1031357. 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.