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Coburn, North Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Coburn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58052. The Survey maps it on the Coburn quadrangle.

Coburn within Ransom County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Coburn in 2012, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
17 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceJAMESON FIRE 2
16 March 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceJAMESON FIRE 1

Every fire recorded in Ransom 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
Sheldon6.7 miles12
Anselm9.0 miles12
Venlo9.9 miles10
Enderlin12.2 miles10
Buttzville15.7 miles10
McLeod15.9 miles10
Lisbon20.4 miles7
Wisner (historical)24.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034795. 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.