BlockFlora, North Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Aurora Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58348. The Survey maps it on the Flora quadrangle. It stands 1,578 feet above sea level.
On record in Flora
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- West Antelope Bridgelisted 1997
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1932 USGS Flora quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Flora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Flora quadrangle1:62500
- 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
8 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Flora between 2006 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ELLINGSON FIRE REKINDLE |
| 20 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ELLINGSON FIRE |
| 8 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | CIRCLE FIRE |
| 30 June 2008 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 211 |
| 3 April 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | 152 |
| 3 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 002 |
| 25 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 495 |
| 11 November 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 453 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flora in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 | Flora | - | A number of trees were blown down along the Sheyenne Valley of South Viking Township. Time estimated based on radar and nearby wind sensors. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | Several trees and branches were blown down. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Flora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5460259 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1028989. 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.