BlockGuptill, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Birtsell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58421. The Survey maps it on the Barlow quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1948 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Barlow quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Guptill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 291 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Arrowwood Wetland Management District | BARLOW WF |
| 23 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.7 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | TWEETEN |
| 15 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KENSAL BAILER GRASS FIRE |
| 4 July 2015 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | JAEGER |
| 27 July 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SOUTH CAR FIRE |
| 20 July 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Arrowwood Wetland Management District | BARLOW |
| 6 June 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PATE BALE FIRE |
| 2 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COPENHAVER BALE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 Guptill: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Ebentier Trucking Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barlow | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Carrington | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Lemert | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Bordulac | 12.8 miles | 10 | |
| Melville | 13.6 miles | 9 | |
| Grace City | 17.8 miles | 12 | |
| Juanita | 24.1 miles | 8 | |
| McHenry | 29.3 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.
| Wikidata item Q122548385 | 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 1033762. 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.