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Calspur, North Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Grand Forks City. It lies in ZIP code area 58203. The Survey maps it on the Grand Forks quadrangle.

Calspur within Grand Forks County

On record in Calspur

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Calspur between 2013 and 2020, burning about 6 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 burning2
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMM136 INTERSTATE 29
2 July 2013Fireworksunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 July 2016Fireworks1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service6000 DEMERS AVE
18 June 2015Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service5500 32ND AVE
19 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFOX FARM FIRE
13 October 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service4796 42ND BRUSH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Calspur: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nodak Contracting PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grand Forks 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
Grand Forks3.0 miles16
North Grand Forks3.2 miles16
Powell4.8 miles13
Merrifield6.1 miles13
Kelly8.9 miles13
Ojata (historical)9.7 miles16
Manvel11.0 miles8
Thompson11.1 miles13

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 Q122597959The 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 1033838. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.