BlockWalden, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rochester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58064. The Survey maps it on the Colgate quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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 Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Colgate quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Walden in 2019, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 12 |
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 Walden in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 6 flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Flood | Walden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Flood | Walden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Flood | Walden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walden | - | A few large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts. Corn and bean fields were flattened in spots across northwest Rochester and northeast Ellsbury townships. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Walden | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Walden | - | Two hunters died after the boat the were using capsized on a flooded portion of the Maple River in Hill Township, about 37 miles west of Fargo. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Walden | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Flood | Walden | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Nolan | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Ayr | 14.0 miles | 9 | |
| Erie | 16.5 miles | 9 | |
| Erie Junction | 17.1 miles | 9 | |
| Wheatland Colony | 17.3 miles | 10 | |
| Tower City | 17.4 miles | 10 | |
| Buffalo | 19.1 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033924. 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.