Venlo, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Shenford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58054. The Survey maps it on the Venlo quadrangle.

Venlo within Ransom County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Venlo quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Venlo quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Venlo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 239 acres in total. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
20 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	A ANNEX
22 August 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SHELDON RAILROAD TRACKS
16 July 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	RAIL ROAD RIGHT OF WAY
8 June 1998	Natural	9.0 acres	Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge	COMPSON
6 June 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	not named
13 June 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SHELDON ROAD SLOUGH
1 June 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HWY27 DITCH
29 May 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	VENLO 1-96

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ransom County

Storms near this place

4 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Venlo in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Venlo	-	Peak wind gust measured at a RAWS station. Time estimated based on radar data.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Venlo	-	Several large branches were blown down in a farm yard.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Venlo	-	The wind gust was measured by a RAWS mesonet station.
June 2020	Hail	Venlo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ransom County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Anselm	3.9 miles	12
Sheldon	7.3 miles	12
Buttzville	9.8 miles	10
Coburn	9.9 miles	12
McLeod	10.1 miles	10
Enderlin	12.5 miles	10
Lisbon	12.8 miles	7
Wisner (historical)	19.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1035226. 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.