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Fort Clark, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1968. It stands in the East Oliver unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58530. The Survey maps it on the Hannover NE quadrangle.

Fort Clark within Oliver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 6 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

13 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fort Clark between 2008 and 2020, burning about 1,016 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
14 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKNIFE RIVER INDIAN VIILAGE DITCH
14 June 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 200A AND HWY 48 INTERSECTION
27 May 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCOREY BERGER FIRE
20 May 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSOUTH OF HWY 200A
16 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSMITH
11 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKnife River Indian Villages National Historic SiteFRETTY FIRE
3 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresKnife River Indian Villages National Historic SiteHEINKE FIRE
20 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHWY 31 AND 200A INTERSECTION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oliver 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
Center8.9 miles6
Hensler9.0 miles9
Hannover12.8 miles5
Sanger14.2 miles8
Price19.6 miles9
Otter Creek20.8 miles5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029010. 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.