BlockBrittin, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Morton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58560. The Survey maps it on the Moffit NW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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 Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Moffit NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Brittin between 2000 and 2018, burning about 282 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | STERLING 4 |
| 12 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 20300 128TH AVE SE |
| 6 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MOFFIT RD. FIRE |
| 22 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 186 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | STERLING 1 |
| 10 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge | ADAMS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Wikidata item Q122573281 | 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 1033836. 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.