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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.

Four Bears Village within McKenzie County

Population over time

2 figures

Four 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.

YearPeople Change
2010517
2020500-17 (-3%)

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.

Fires near this place

314 since 1992

Regional 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
Fireworks76
Natural73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Debris and open burning35
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking4
Other causes1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFort Berthold AgencyMATTSON
5 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyWHITE LODGE
29 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyTHIRD STREET
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyLITTLE PATCH
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFort Berthold AgencyNO SIGN
27 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyNAGEL
27 September 2005Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyFORT
25 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in McKenzie 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mountrail County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in McKenzie 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
Hawkeye15.9 miles8
Charlson16.4 miles5
Mandaree18.2 miles7
Keene19.6 miles8
Spotted Horn19.8 miles7
Johnsons Corner22.9 miles8
Croff25.2 miles8
Banks32.9 miles8

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 VillageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2940585The 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.