Croff, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Central McKenzie unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58854. The Survey maps it on the Croff quadrangle.

Croff within McKenzie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Croff quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Parshall quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Croff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Croff between 1996 and 2019, 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	5
Natural	2
Firearms and explosives use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
10 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	FLYING J4
1 September 1998	Natural	35 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	CHERRY CREEK
5 August 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	NATHAN 2
28 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	2019100
25 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	CURTIS 2019087
23 July 2017	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	DEVILS ELBOW
11 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CURTIS-1
19 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	2018047

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Johnsons Corner

Every fire recorded in McKenzie 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Johnsons Corner	3.9 miles	8
Keene	12.4 miles	8
Spotted Horn	12.6 miles	7
Schafer	13.5 miles	7
Mandaree	14.1 miles	7
Hawkeye	17.6 miles	8
Watford City	18.5 miles	6
Charlson	21.9 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034807. 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.