BlockBrockway, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Alleghany Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58054. The Survey maps it on the Elliott SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Elliott SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Brockway (historical) between 2015 and 2017, burning about 134 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-070517 |
| 28 June 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PAYLOADER GRASS FIRE |
| 6 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 130 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LYONS FIRE |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliott | 7.8 miles | 7 | |
| Englevale | 8.9 miles | 7 | |
| Lisbon | 12.7 miles | 7 | |
| Wisner (historical) | 16.1 miles | 10 | |
| Fort Ransom | 17.1 miles | 10 | |
| Buttzville | 18.0 miles | 10 | |
| Anselm | 23.7 miles | 12 | |
| Venlo | 23.8 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034586. 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.