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Akra, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Akra Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58220. The Survey maps it on the Backoo quadrangle.

Akra within Pembina County

On record in Akra

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Akra between 2017 and 2018, burning about 54 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 burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 July 2018Railroad operations and maintenance50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRAILROAD FIRE
3 May 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceICELANDIC STATE PARK FIRE
13 April 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDEMARS GRASS FIRE
22 October 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTROSEN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pembina County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akra in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2020HailAkra-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindAkra-Several pine trees were snapped along the bike path.
August 1998HailAkra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pembina County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Svold4.3 miles10
Backoo4.3 miles10
Hallson4.9 miles10
Cavalier5.7 miles10
Hensel6.8 miles9
Leyden8.3 miles11
Mountain9.5 miles8
Leroy10.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1027662. 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.