Hamlin, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Herman Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58053. The Survey maps it on the Hamlin quadrangle.

Hamlin within Sargent County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hamlin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hamlin in 2016, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	COMBINE FIRE
15 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	GOULSBY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

De Lamere

Every fire recorded in Sargent 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Geneseo	6.4 miles	9
Ransom City (historical)	7.2 miles	9
De Lamere	7.5 miles	10
Cayuga	8.2 miles	9
Milnor	11.1 miles	10
Sundale Colony	13.7 miles	10
Rutland	14.2 miles	8
Hoving	16.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029292. 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.