Kuroki, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1958. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58711. The Survey maps it on the Kuroki quadrangle.

Kuroki within Bottineau County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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.

1951 USGS Kuroki quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Kuroki between 2016 and 2017, burning about 386 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
8 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	FIELD FIRE 6 EAST HWY 5
28 April 2016	Debris and open burning	180 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	BALLENTYNE
12 March 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	MYRON LODOEN
25 October 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	200 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	DUSTY KUHNS/KROKI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bottineau 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
Westhope	6.8 miles	6
Antler	7.7 miles	5
Landa	12.7 miles	7
Renville	14.2 miles	5
Maxbass	14.5 miles	5
Dunning	15.7 miles	5
Roth	18.3 miles	7
Newburg	19.4 miles	6

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 Q122549225

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 1029783. 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.