BlockWindsor, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Windsor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58424. The Survey maps it on the Cleveland quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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 Cleveland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Steele quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Windsor between 1996 and 2016, burning about 140 acres in total. 1 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 | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2006 | Natural | 15 acres | Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District | STRAND |
| 19 May 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 35 acres | Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District | CLEVELAND SLOUGH |
| 8 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 8 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 12 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | K-FARM |
| 14 March 2016 | Smoking | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 130116 |
| 18 February 2012 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 3 December 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District | MOONLAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 wildfire, 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 2019 | Hail | Windsor | $75,000 | Extensive crop and tree damage occurred, with almost all leaves in the tree row shredded. Holes were punched in gutters and wood shake siding was shredded. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Windsor | $75,000 | property damage estimated |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | $15,000 | A dumpster was flipped, an awning was stripped off of a motor-home, a metal shed was displaced over 500 feet, and a chicken pen was flattened. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph. |
| June 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Windsor | - | This tornado touched down briefly in open country west-northwest of the city of Jamestown. There was no damage so this tornado was rated EF0. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | Very heavy rain and pea size hail accompanied the strong thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Windsor | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Wildfire | Windsor | - | 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.
| Wikipedia article on Windsor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22061169 | 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 1032844. 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.