Fife, North Dakota

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mapleton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58078. The Survey maps it on the West Fargo North quadrangle.

Fife within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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.

1895 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1897 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 12 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS West Fargo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS West Fargo North quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

24 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Fife between 2005 and 2020, burning about 37 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
28 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
8 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
7 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	FARM FEILD CONTROLLED BURN
30 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
10 July 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	71015
3 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
1 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
7 May 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	05/07/2019 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fife in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Fife	-	Received a public report of an estimated 70 mph wind gust.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Fife	-	Large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts between Mapleton and West Fargo.
July 2018	Hail	Fife	-	The hail was mostly quarter sized.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fife	-	The wind gust was measured by a mobile anemometer.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Riverside	3.4 miles	24
West Fargo	3.5 miles	24
South West Fargo	3.5 miles	24
Pinkham	4.0 miles	24
Mapleton	4.7 miles	13
Reiles Acres	5.9 miles	25
Prosper	6.1 miles	13
Harwood	7.9 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033856. 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.