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Frontier Homesteads, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Mandan City. It lies in ZIP code area 58554. The Survey maps it on the Bismarck quadrangle.

Frontier Homesteads within Morton County

On record in Frontier Homesteads

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

49 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Frontier Homesteads between 2004 and 2020, burning about 445 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Fireworks8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCRESTWOOD FIRE
30 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
25 September 2020Smoking1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceROUGHRIDER
21 September 2020Smokingunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRIVER RD
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI-94 MM 122
17 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFD2009170004
7 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service57TH STREET FIRE
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Frontier Homesteads: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
U S Noonlite Mine & PlantClayProducer
Bismarck State PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dakota PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dakota PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Helm Bros Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hot Plant Site FalconerSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sunny PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Wetch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mandan0.8 miles10
Meadow Park0.9 miles10
Twin City Estates1.6 miles11
Rock Haven3.4 miles10
On-a-Slant Village (historical)4.3 miles11
Sunny4.4 miles10
Lyons9.6 miles5
Harmon9.6 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122570027The 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 2515486. 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.