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Farmington, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58075. The Survey maps it on the Mooreton East quadrangle.

Farmington within Richland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Farmington in 2017, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service1378
3 December 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2700

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland 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
Dwight2.6 miles11
Fairview Junction3.8 miles10
Mooreton6.6 miles10
Wahpeton7.7 miles11
Great Bend8.3 miles10
Galchutt8.8 miles9
Elmore9.2 miles9
Tyler11.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033854. 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.