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Fort Totten, North Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fort Totten unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58370. The Survey maps it on the Fort Totten quadrangle.

Fort Totten within Benson County

On record in Fort Totten

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

3,939 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3,939 fires within 5 miles of Fort Totten between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,430 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3670 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/incendiarism3670
Debris and open burning161
Fireworks43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes2

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
9 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresFort Totten AgencyMUCK
9 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFort Totten Agency249
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Totten AgencyMS1910
9 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Totten Agencynot named
8 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyFROD
8 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyWILBERT
8 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFort Totten Agency131
7 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyBIRTHDAY HAZARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Totten: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cavanaugh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Benson 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
Saint Michael6.4 miles14
Tokio10.1 miles14
Lallie11.8 miles11
Oberon11.9 miles11
Minnewaukan15.1 miles7
Josephine17.2 miles10
Warwick17.3 miles10
Tilden18.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029023. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.