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Lakewood Park, North Dakota

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Creel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58301. The Survey maps it on the Camp Grafton quadrangle. It stands 1,453 feet above sea level.

Lakewood Park within Ramsey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Lakewood Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 892 acres in total. None started naturally. 134 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
Arson/incendiarism134
Debris and open burning47
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2017Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWANG
4 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyJACOBS
20 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyJEROMES PRAIRIE
19 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyCASINO
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyMN0403
16 September 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFort Totten AgencyTOWER
1 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyMS0704
8 August 2017Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceACKERMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lakewood Park: 3 producers. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cavanaugh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Soper Brothers Const PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Strong Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lakewood Park in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2022Thunderstorm WindLakewood Park-Peak wind was measured at an North Dakota RWIS station.
July 2020HailLakewood Park-The hail fell near Woodland Resort.
June 2019HailLakewood Park-The hail fell at Creel Bay.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLakewood Park-Tree damage was reported in the Woodlawn and Lakeview areas.

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Camp Grafton1.1 miles14
Devils Lake4.0 miles14
Darby6.0 miles14
Grand Harbor7.4 miles14
Keith9.5 miles14
Ramsey10.3 miles10
Essex10.3 miles8
Sweetwater10.4 miles14

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 Q106654285The 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 1035899. 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.

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.