BlockAurelia, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Carbondale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58734. The Survey maps it on the Aurelia quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Aurelia quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Minot quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Aurelia between 2012 and 2016, burning about 6,150 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 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TOM MURPHY |
| 8 April 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RAILROAD FIRE |
| 5 April 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 6,070 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DONNY BROOK FIRE |
| 13 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DONNBROOK FIELD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 1027772. 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.