BlockKnife River Village, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1967. It stands in the East Mercer unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58571. It stands on Knife River. The Survey maps it on the Stanton SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1948 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Stanton SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Knife River Village (historical) between 2005 and 2019, burning about 663 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | DITCH FIRE |
| 14 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | YELLOW BEAR |
| 14 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | CEMETERY |
| 13 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | PEAFIELD |
| 12 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | PEAFIELD II |
| 29 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TIM SCHWARTZ |
| 24 July 2006 | Natural | 2.6 acres | Audubon National Wildlife Refuge | GREWE |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2101622. 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.