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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1943 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Voss quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2017Regional 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/undetermined | 7 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 20189 |
| 23 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 20179 |
| 22 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 20178 |
| 7 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SEC. GRASS FIRE |
| 6 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-02 |
| 20 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-03 |
| 15 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 20193 |
| 27 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-01 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Voss | $5,000 | A metal shed was blown down in Voss. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Voss | - | Four box elder trees were uprooted and 2.28 inches of rain fell. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Voss | - | The hail fell near the intersection of highways 15A and 81. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Voss | - | Numerous trees were knocked down in shelterbelts over a several mile area in Prairie Centre and Walsh Centre townships. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minto | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Kellogg | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Herriott | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Forest River | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Veseleyville | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Grafton | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Ardoch | 8.6 miles | 9 | |
| Ops | 8.9 miles | 8 |
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 Voss | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14708394 | 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 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.






