BlockDundas, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Superior Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58356. It stands on Rocky Run. The Survey maps it on the New Rockford NE quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1948 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS New Rockford NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dundas between 1995 and 2019, burning about 396 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | NEW ROCKFORD |
| 17 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SCHMALTZ FIRE |
| 14 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GARY ANDERSON |
| 27 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TOLLEFSON FIRE 1 |
| 14 April 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 137 |
| 25 October 1995 | Debris and open burning | 38 acres | Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District | SECKERSON |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033850. 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.