BlockWoods, North Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Leonard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58052. The Survey maps it on the Leonard quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Leonard quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Woods between 2012 and 2017, burning about 11 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 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RAILROAD AVE SOUTH |
| 13 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WOODS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woods in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 tornado, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Woods | - | Tornado scar evident via high resolution satellite. |
| June 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Woods | - | Tornado scar evident via high resolution satellite. |
| June 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Woods | - | A brief touchdown was reported with no damage. |
| May 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Woods | - | The funnel cloud was spotted 7 miles west of Kindred. |
| July 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Woods | - | Significant tree damage occurred at three farmsteads with debris thrown in divergent patterns. Peak winds were estimated to 105 mph. Significant crop damage occurred across southern Davenport township due to additional widepsread damaging winds and large hail. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Woods | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Woods | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033805. 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.