BlockBackoo, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Advance Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58220. The Survey maps it on the Backoo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 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.
- 1939 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Backoo quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Backoo between 2017 and 2020, burning about 24 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 burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 9 MILLRACE |
| 3 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ICELANDIC STATE PARK FIRE |
| 18 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BEAULIEU HILL |
| 22 October 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TROSEN FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Backoo in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2016: 6 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2012 | Flash Flood | Backoo | $15,000 | Heavy rains in excess of four inches in two hours across much of Advance and Cavalier North townships produced significant runoff in local creeks that feed into the Tongue River. One small creek washed out a box culvert/bridge along 98th Street Northeast, between 138th and 139th Avenue Northeast. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Backoo | $10,000 | Extensive crop damage occurred across northern Advance Township and southern St. Joseph Township. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Backoo | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Backoo | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Backoo | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Backoo | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Backoo | - | 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 1027778. 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.