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Voss, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Walsh Centre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58261. The Survey maps it on the Voss quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Voss within Walsh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Voss between 2017 and 2019, burning about 8 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service20189
23 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service20179
22 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service20178
7 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSEC. GRASS FIRE
6 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-02
20 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2019-03
15 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service20193
27 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-01

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walsh County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Voss in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindVoss$5,000A metal shed was blown down in Voss.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindVoss-Four box elder trees were uprooted and 2.28 inches of rain fell.
July 2015HailVoss-The hail fell near the intersection of highways 15A and 81.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindVoss-Numerous trees were knocked down in shelterbelts over a several mile area in Prairie Centre and Walsh Centre townships.

Every storm recorded in Walsh 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Minto4.5 miles9
Kellogg4.8 miles9
Herriott5.3 miles9
Forest River5.6 miles9
Veseleyville5.8 miles8
Grafton8.3 miles9
Ardoch8.6 miles9
Ops8.9 miles8

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 VossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14708394The 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 1032654. 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.