BlockJohnson Ford, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the West Grant unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58533. It stands on Heart Butte Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Tschida East quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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.
- 1938 USGS Heart Butte quadrangle1:48000
- 1944 USGS Heart Butte quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Glen Ullin quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Lake Tschida East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Ford between 2016 and 2020, burning about 112 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-904 |
| 2 September 2016 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WILL |
| 21 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-808 |
| 14 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HWY 49 |
| 21 June 2016 | Natural | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ULRICH |
| 4 October 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FD2010040005 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wollman Ranch Colony | 2.3 miles | 7 | |
| Elgin | 13.1 miles | 5 | |
| Heil | 13.6 miles | 5 | |
| Carson | 15.1 miles | 5 | |
| Leith | 16.6 miles | 5 | |
| New Leipzig | 17.2 miles | 5 | |
| Lark | 20.9 miles | 5 | |
| Brisbane | 21.6 miles | 5 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033867. 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.