BlockBuffalo Springs, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Scranton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58623. The Survey maps it on the Scranton quadrangle. It stands 2,861 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1953 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Scranton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo Springs between 2005 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 2 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 | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| 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 September 2005 | Natural | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MAYCHRYAK |
| 26 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | SHAWN MAYCHRZAK FIRE |
| 19 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MAYCHRZAK |
| 13 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PALCZEWSKI FIRE |
| 7 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HUESON FIRE |
| 7 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CHUCK FOSSUM |
| 14 June 2020 | Natural | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LAZY JS RANCH 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.
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 Buffalo Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4985853 | 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 1033837. 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.