BlockCole Ford, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Northeast McHenry unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58384. The Survey maps it on the Willow City SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1950 USGS Willow City SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Bottineau quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Cole Ford between 1994 and 2020, burning about 293 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 92520 |
| 4 August 2006 | Natural | 92 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | FOUR AM FIRE |
| 19 August 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | H-22-E1-MEADOW |
| 11 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 June 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 101 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | SNAKE CREEK |
| 8 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 19 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | North Dakota State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 9.5 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | 341EAST |
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 Q122554095 | 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 1033842. 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.