BlockDerrick, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Prospect Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58330. The Survey maps it on the Derrick quadrangle.
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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Derrick quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Derrick between 1996 and 2018, burning about 4,373 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 1997 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | NELSON WPA |
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HAMPDEN |
| 18 September 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 103 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | MARTINSON WF |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 100 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | MARTINS2 |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 480 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PHILAUS |
| 22 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PHILAUS |
| 14 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 384 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | MARTINSON |
| 14 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PHIL AUS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Derrick in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Hail | Derrick | - | A few nickel sized hail fell, but larger hail was likely into northwest Overland Township. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Derrick | - | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Hail | Derrick | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Derrick | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033747. 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.