BlockHamlet, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Big Meadow Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58795. The Survey maps it on the Hamlet quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Hamlet quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Crosby quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hamlet between 1998 and 2017, burning about 281 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WILDROSE ASSIST |
| 24 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HAMLET |
| 2 June 1998 | Natural | 80 acres | Crosby Wetland Management District | HEDLUND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Hamlet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16883963 | 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 1029291. 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.