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Darby, North Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Grand Harbor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58301. The Survey maps it on the Grand Harbor quadrangle.

Darby within Ramsey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Darby between 1996 and 2019, burning about 326 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 2017Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWANG
19 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyCASINO
6 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyCHARCOAL
18 May 2002Debris and open burning150 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictKENNER
10 May 2013Debris and open burning5.6 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictKENNER WPA
7 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTREE FIRE
23 April 2015Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFort Totten AgencyAG
27 November 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darby in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2015HailDarby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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 Harbor1.4 miles14
Devils Lake5.6 miles14
Lakewood Park6.0 miles14
Ramsey6.4 miles10
Sweetwater6.7 miles14
Camp Grafton7.1 miles14
Penn8.0 miles10
Webster10.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033845. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.