BlockHickson, North Dakota
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58047. The Survey maps it on the Hickson quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 24 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.
- 1895 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1897 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 12 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hickson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
3 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hickson in 2020, burning about 26 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | I29 |
| 1 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HURLEY CONTROL BURN |
| 5 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | INTERSTATE 29 / 54 MM FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hickson in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Hickson | $500 | Heavy rains of 2 to 3 inches produced areas of flooding in fields and across local roadways in portions of southeast Pleasant township. Flooding was increased along adjacent portions of the Wild Rice River as well. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickson | - | Several large 4 to 6-inch tree branches broken down. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickson | - | A pole shed was blown apart by squall line winds. Shed materials were scattered downwind. Surrounding farmsteads in Normana and Pleasant townships had numerous large tree branches and limbs broken as well. Dusty ground swirls and gustnadoes were observed along the gust front. Winds of 70 to 80 mph were estimated to have persisted for several minutes. |
| July 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Hickson | - | The funnel tracked over the Interstate 29 exit at Hickson-Oxbow, moving northeast. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickson | - | A rotten tree was blown over. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Hickson | - | Vehicles were hit by the large hail, one suffering a cracked windshield. Satellite imagery showed widespread wind and hail damage to cropland across central Pleasant Township. |
| September 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickson | - | Large branches and power lines were blown down at a farmstead. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Hickson | - | Half dollar sized hail fell along with winds in excess of 70 mph. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickson | - | Many trees were snapped off or uprooted. A piece of roof was torn off the southwest corner of a house. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickson | - | Large evergreen trees were blown over or uprooted. |
| July 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Hickson | - | no account filed |
| August 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Hickson | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hickson | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Hickson | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Hickson | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxbow | 0.2 miles | 24 | |
| Saint Benedict | 4.1 miles | 24 | |
| Wild Rice | 5.3 miles | 24 | |
| Norman | 7.1 miles | 23 | |
| Horace | 7.9 miles | 24 | |
| Briarwood | 8.1 miles | 25 | |
| Frontier | 9.1 miles | 25 | |
| Prairie Rose | 10.3 miles | 25 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029426. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.