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Fort Yates, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Fort Yates City. It lies in ZIP code area 58538. It stands on Onemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fort Yates quadrangle. 176 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.

Fort Yates within Sioux County

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Yates fell from 184 to 176 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010184
2020176-8 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

1,441 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,441 fires within 5 miles of Fort Yates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,009 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 295 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
Fireworks386
Missing data/not specified/undetermined337
Arson/incendiarism295
Debris and open burning144
Misuse of fire by a minor127
Equipment and vehicle use65
Recreation and ceremony43
Natural23
Other causes10
Smoking8
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresStanding Rock AgencyNORTH HAWK
9 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyCLOROX
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyMARIO
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyMARIO2
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresStanding Rock Agencynot named
8 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyFY-023-17
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresStanding Rock AgencyLET'S GO
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreStanding Rock AgencyPOINT NORT

Every fire recorded in Sioux 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 Yates: 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
Fisher Sand & Gravel Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sioux 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
Selfridge15.9 miles5
Cannon Ball21.0 miles6
Chadwick22.0 miles5
Solen22.7 miles5
Porcupine26.5 miles5

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 Fort YatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2300641The 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 1029027. 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.