Independence, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ryan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58458. The Survey maps it on the Independence quadrangle.

Independence within LaMoure County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1895 USGS Lamoure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1918 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Independence between 2015 and 2018, burning about 9 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	JOEY SCHMIDT
23 April 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	JOEY SCHMIDT FIRE
19 April 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KENNY RIDDLE
11 March 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	KELLY KLEIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

LaMoure

Every fire recorded in LaMoure 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
LaMoure	5.4 miles	13
Verona	6.6 miles	11
Benson Corner	10.0 miles	11
Fairview Colony	10.9 miles	12
Grand Rapids	11.8 miles	12
Berlin	15.9 miles	12
Marion	19.8 miles	10
Dickey	19.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033646. 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.