Johnsons Corner, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the North McKenzie unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58847. The Survey maps it on the Johnsons Corner quadrangle.

Johnsons Corner within McKenzie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Johnsons Corner quadrangle1:24000
1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Parshall quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Johnsons Corner quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Johnsons Corner between 2018 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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	5
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
28 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	HESS 2018096
5 August 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	NATHAN 2
28 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	2019100
25 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	CURTIS 2019087
11 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CURTIS-1
19 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	2018047
14 June 2019	Natural	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	REC 2019085
9 May 2018	Smoking	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	WESLEY1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKenzie County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsons Corner in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2023	Hail	Johnsons Corner	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Johnsons Corner	-	no account filed
September 2019	Hail	Johnsons Corner	-	no account filed
June 2016	Funnel Cloud	Johnsons Corner	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in McKenzie 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
Croff	3.9 miles	8
Keene	8.5 miles	8
Schafer	13.0 miles	7
Hawkeye	13.8 miles	8
Spotted Horn	13.9 miles	7
Mandaree	15.0 miles	7
Charlson	18.1 miles	5
Watford City	18.1 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034945. 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.