BlockHanks Corner, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 58220. The Survey maps it on the Hanks Corner quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1918 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Hanks Corner quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hanks Corner between 2002 and 2020, burning about 706 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | JEEP INCIDENT |
| 12 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HWY5HELGOE |
| 28 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MARTINS FIRE |
| 5 June 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | THREE BRIDGES FIRE |
| 7 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | DITCH FIRE |
| 20 May 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 700 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PEMBINA GORGE |
| 29 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2020-01593 |
| 26 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE 1 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122596459 | 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 1029299. 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.