BlockSims, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the West Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58520. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Salem quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS New Salem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Glen Ullin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sims in 2012, burning about 2 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MARK JACOBSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sims in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sims | $65,000 | Straight line wind damage occurred near New Salem. A barn roof was destroyed, an auger was tipped over, and debris was thrown into the side of a home. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Sims | $10,000 | Wind driven hail damaged wind breaks. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sims | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Sims | - | Widespread crop damage occurred as the large hail combined with gusty winds. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Sims | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Sims | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almont | 3.2 miles | 5 | |
| North Almont | 4.7 miles | 6 | |
| New Salem | 6.8 miles | 6 | |
| Dengate | 8.8 miles | 6 | |
| Judson | 12.2 miles | 5 | |
| Youngtown | 12.7 miles | 5 | |
| Bluegrass | 13.0 miles | 5 | |
| Glen Ullin | 17.8 miles | 6 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033798. 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.