Kloze, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Sydney Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58401. The Survey maps it on the Homer quadrangle.

Kloze within Stutsman 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.

1896 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1952 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Kloze between 1998 and 2017, burning about 47 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
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
29 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	80412
11 September 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	20412
10 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	230312
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	120312
6 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	130312
2 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	100315
5 May 1998	Smoking	1.0 acres	Chase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management District	SYDNEY
4 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	10230

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stutsman County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kloze: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Klose Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Stutsman 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
Homer	4.9 miles	11
Sydney	5.1 miles	10
Jamestown Junction	5.7 miles	11
Frontier Village	6.5 miles	13
Jamestown	7.8 miles	13
Eldridge	9.2 miles	12
Millarton	9.3 miles	10
Reeves	9.4 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q122538995

The 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 1033771. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.