Eaton, North Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Port Emma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58474. The Survey maps it on the Hecla quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Eaton within Dickey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1894 USGS Hecla quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1896 USGS Columbia quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Aberdeen quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Hecla quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elm River quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Eaton (historical) between 2011 and 2020, burning about 646 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
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
26 April 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	DANIELS
26 April 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TODD DANIELS
21 March 2012	Debris and open burning	180 acres	Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge	3 MAN
16 March 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	76 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	G. MITCHELL
16 March 2016	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge	HOGGARTH PREP MITCHELL/ HECLA WF
3 December 2012	Debris and open burning	60 acres	Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge	FIRST THING
29 November 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	TREEBY FIRE
23 November 2020	Smoking	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	MITCHELL

Every fire recorded in Dickey 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
Port Emma (historical)	3.9 miles	13
Ludden	4.1 miles	13
Guelph	5.2 miles	13
Hudson (historical)	10.0 miles	13
Silverleaf	11.4 miles	13
Norway	12.2 miles	13
Oakes	12.9 miles	13
Clement	13.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034528. 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.