Fort Rice, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58554. It stands on Rice Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Rice quadrangle.

Fort Rice within Morton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1907 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Fort Rice quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fort Rice between 2016 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	OLD RED TRAIL FIRE
2 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HARMON CEMETERY
2 July 2016	Fireworks	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HARMON LAKE
4 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HWY 10 GRASS
28 May 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	STRATA RAIL BANK
26 May 2017	Fireworks	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HARMON LAKE #1
1 May 2016	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	TROLLY FIRE
25 April 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HORST FIRE

Every fire recorded in Morton 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
Huff	7.6 miles	7
Schmidt	14.6 miles	8
Saint Anthony	18.5 miles	7
Lynwood	19.7 miles	7
Breien	21.5 miles	5
On-a-Slant Village (historical)	21.7 miles	11
Twin City Estates	24.5 miles	11
Timmer	25.3 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029017. 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.