BlockBerwick, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Berwick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58788. The Survey maps it on the Berwick 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 Berwick quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Berwick between 1994 and 2015, burning about 6,008 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | HAYBALE2 |
| 12 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 23 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 15 August 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | LONETREE |
| 29 June 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | VOLK WPA |
| 2 June 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | G-50 PREP |
| 5 May 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | BNRAILROAD |
| 2 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1,640 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | ASPEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berwick in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 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.
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Berwick | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4895964 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1027918. 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.