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Isabel, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Isabel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58332. The Survey maps it on the Harlow SW quadrangle. It stands 1,614 feet above sea level.

Isabel within Benson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

9 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Isabel between 2007 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism1

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
13 August 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2017-39
1 July 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHAGN FIRE
4 May 2016Debris and open burning9.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMICKEY H
3 May 2007Debris and open burning105 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictDEEP VALLEY
11 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceABRAHAMSON FIRE
30 April 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyWALKING EAGLE
2 November 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHANSON FIRE
25 October 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHANSON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benson 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
Hesper5.5 miles9
Esmond6.1 miles6
Baker6.6 miles6
Maddock9.6 miles10
Harlow9.9 miles6
Fillmore11.2 miles6
Flora14.8 miles11
Comstock15.0 miles7

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.

Wikipedia article on IsabelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6077537The 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 1033864. 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.