BlockCoulee, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Lowland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58734. The Survey maps it on the Coulee quadrangle. It stands 2,064 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1949 USGS Coulee quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Coulee between 1993 and 2019, burning about 457 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 71 acres | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | NORRIE |
| 22 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 acres | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | COULEE FIRE |
| 10 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TOM MURPHY |
| 19 June 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | UNIT7-RR |
| 23 May 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FELDMAN FIRE |
| 1 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HIGHWAY 50 |
| 28 April 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 120 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BADEN HILL |
| 23 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CHRISTENSEN FIRE |
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 Coulee | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5176130 | 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 1028477. 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.