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Boynton, North Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Keystone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58436. The Survey maps it on the Monango quadrangle.

Boynton within Dickey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Boynton in 2017, burning about 3 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 October 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMERKEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickey 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Keystone (historical)1.9 miles12
Monango2.4 miles12
Duane5.7 miles12
Fullerton6.8 miles13
Maple River Colony8.3 miles13
Ellendale10.6 miles12
Merricourt11.6 miles11
Silverleaf13.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1035525. 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.