BlockStirum, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Vivian Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58069. The Survey maps it on the Stirum quadrangle. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Stirum quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Storms near this place
11 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stirum in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2013 | Flash Flood | Stirum | $10,000 | Highway 13 was closed west of Gwinner due to water washing over the road. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stirum | - | Peak 3-meter wind was measured at an NDAWN station. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stirum | - | Four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Stirum | - | Penny to ping pong ball sized hail covered the ground. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Stirum | - | Golf ball sized hail fell at Emmanuel Church near Stirum. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Stirum | - | Ping pong to golf ball sized hail fell. |
| April 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Stirum | - | Brief and intermittent touchdowns occurred along the damage track through open fields. The wall cloud structure continued east and passed over Gwinner around 1620 CST. Dust was observed to swirl up into the wall cloud from the top of the Gwinner grain elevator. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Stirum | - | Water flowed over a county road near state highway 13. Fields were also flooded due to about 5 inches of rain in the past 12 hours. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stirum | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Stirum | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Stirum | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem (historical) | 2.1 miles | 7 | |
| Cogswell | 7.2 miles | 7 | |
| Gwinner | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| Nicholson | 7.7 miles | 7 | |
| Crete | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Hample | 10.4 miles | 8 | |
| Forman | 11.5 miles | 7 | |
| Straubville | 12.5 miles | 7 |
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 Stirum | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7617622 | 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 1032325. 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.
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.