BlockKelly, North Dakota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Blooming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58203. The Survey maps it on the Kelly quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1934 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:48000
- 1934 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:62500
- 1938 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Kelly quadrangle1:24000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Kelly between 1996 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-00064 |
| 1 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HAYFIRE |
| 24 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PENDER WPA |
| 5 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1786 18TH ST NE GRASS FIRE |
| 11 October 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 82 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PENDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelly in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2017: 1 lightning, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ojata (historical) | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Powell | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Mekinock | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Emerado | 7.6 miles | 16 | |
| Manvel | 7.7 miles | 8 | |
| North Grand Forks | 8.2 miles | 16 | |
| Calspur | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| Merrifield | 11.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033615. 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.