Baden, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Baden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58746. It lies in Baden Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Coulee quadrangle.

Baden within Ward County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1949 USGS Coulee quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Baden between 1993 and 2019, burning about 778 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	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
24 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	71 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	NORRIE
22 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	COULEE FIRE
12 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	NELSON
22 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-13
6 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	16 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	666
19 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT7-RR
23 May 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	FELDMAN FIRE
16 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	UNNAMED

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ward 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
Kenaston	6.2 miles	7
Kenmare	7.3 miles	8
Donnybrook	8.3 miles	7
Aurelia	9.9 miles	6
Niobe	13.2 miles	8
Nine Mile Corner	15.8 miles	7
Hartland	16.2 miles	7
Carpio	18.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033833. 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.