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Honeyford, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gilby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58235. The Survey maps it on the Gilby quadrangle.

Honeyford within Grand Forks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Honeyford in 2018, burning about 3 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 burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-59

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Honeyford: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Honeyford Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grand Forks County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Honeyford in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2000Flash FloodHoneyford$1,000,000Flash flooding occurred around the town of Honeyford, as 15 to 20 inches of rain fell across portions of western Grand Forks county.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHoneyford-Large tree limbs were broken off trees.
August 2016HailHoneyford-no account filed
July 2004HailHoneyford-no account filed
June 2000HailHoneyford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Forks 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gilby3.6 miles9
Mekinock5.9 miles9
Johnstown7.6 miles9
Arvilla8.0 miles15
Emerado9.7 miles16
Orr11.6 miles8
Larimore12.0 miles11
Inkster12.3 miles8

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 Q122545911The 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 1029521. 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.

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.