Four Bears Village, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Berthold unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58763. The Survey maps it on the Sanish quadrangle. 500 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,955 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFour Bears Village fell from 517 to 500 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 517 | |
| 2020 | 500 | -17 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Sanish quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Parshall quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
314 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Four Bears Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,566 acres in total. 73 started naturally. 19 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 76 |
| Natural | 73 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Berthold Agency | MATTSON |
| 5 September 2011 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | WHITE LODGE |
| 29 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | THIRD STREET |
| 28 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | LITTLE PATCH |
| 28 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | NO SIGN |
| 27 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | NAGEL |
| 27 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | FORT |
| 25 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Four Bears Village: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountrail County Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawkeye | 15.9 miles | 8 | |
| Charlson | 16.4 miles | 5 | |
| Mandaree | 18.2 miles | 7 | |
| Keene | 19.6 miles | 8 | |
| Spotted Horn | 19.8 miles | 7 | |
| Johnsons Corner | 22.9 miles | 8 | |
| Croff | 25.2 miles | 8 | |
| Banks | 32.9 miles | 8 |
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 Four Bears Village | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2940585 | 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 1034243. 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.




