BlockVeseleyville, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prairie Centre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58237. The Survey maps it on the Veseleyville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Veseleyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Veseleyville between 2005 and 2019, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-02 |
| 15 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SUDA DUSEK |
| 13 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SCOTT WEDEL |
| 28 October 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veseleyville in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Veseleyville | $2,000 | A partially rain wrapped tornado ripped down large branches and snapped a few trees in shelterbelts. It also damaged the trim on a farmstead house. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veseleyville | - | A steel grain bin was blown off its foundation and an old barn was blown down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veseleyville | - | Corn fields were flattened by winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veseleyville | - | Power poles were blown down at the intersection of North Dakota 18 and Walsh 15. The time was estimated. |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Veseleyville | - | One or more brief funnel clouds formed along a line from near Veseleyville to near Forest River over a roughly 5 minute period. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Veseleyville | - | Trees were blown down at the junction of state highways 18 and 15. |
| September 2018 | Hail | Veseleyville | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Veseleyville | - | 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.
| Wikidata item Q122553270 | 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 1032642. 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.