Eagle Nest, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the West Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58631. The Survey maps it on the Glen Ullin SW quadrangle.

Eagle Nest within Morton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Glen Ullin SW quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Glen Ullin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Nest between 2015 and 2020, burning about 25 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WHEAT FIELD FIRE
14 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WANNER BALE FIRE
24 April 2018	Smoking	20 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	402
21 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WANNER FIELD FIRE
30 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	2019-304

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morton 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
Glen Ullin	5.6 miles	6
Hebron	7.2 miles	5
Dengate	15.3 miles	6
Bluegrass	19.3 miles	5
North Almont	22.0 miles	6
Sims	23.2 miles	6
Almont	24.0 miles	5
New Salem	27.2 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033752. 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.