Avoca, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Stony Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58801. It stands on Stockyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Williston East quadrangle.

Avoca within Williams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Williston East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Williston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Avoca between 2017 and 2020, burning about 165 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
Fireworks	12
Debris and open burning	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	42 AVE BURN PILE
30 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	65 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	200924
2 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	200902
2 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	200901
19 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	200920
15 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	WEATHERFORD
12 September 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	THE MEADOWS
4 August 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	UMVF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Williams County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Avoca: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cactus 64sh Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Hoffelt Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Williams 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Williston	5.6 miles	6
Spring Brook	5.8 miles	7
Epping	11.0 miles	7
Lake Jessie	11.6 miles	7
Long Creek	15.2 miles	7
Marmon	15.6 miles	5
Wheelock	16.3 miles	7
Trenton	18.4 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033832. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.