Webster, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 58382. The Survey maps it on the Webster quadrangle. It stands 1,467 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Webster between 2017 and 2019, burning about 12 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 | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BEES |
| 4 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BAKER |
| 5 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | AS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webster in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 13 hail, 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2025 | Hail | Webster | - | Hail fell for 4 to 5 minutes with the ground becoming completely covered. The largest stones were larger than a quarter. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Webster NDAWN gusts to 63 mph at 10 meters. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Peak wind gust was measured at an NDAWN station at the 3 meter level. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | A six inch diameter apple tree was snapped. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Webster | - | Nickel to half dollar sized hail fell. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Webster | - | A lot of quarter to half dollar sized hail fell. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Numerous six inch diameter tree branches were blown down by the strong wind. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | An almost completed seed building was blown over. The building was wood framed with about ten rafters left to put on before completion. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in a farm yard. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Webster | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Webster | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Webster | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweetwater | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Garske | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Grand Harbor | 9.6 miles | 14 | |
| Darby | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Starkweather | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Devils Lake | 11.7 miles | 14 | |
| Penn | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Essex | 13.0 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 Webster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7978869 | 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 1032711. 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.





