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Lehigh, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dickinson North unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58601. The Survey maps it on the Lehigh quadrangle.

Lehigh within Stark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

10 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Lehigh between 2012 and 2020, burning about 890 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 September 2019Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBAAR
10 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGREEN RIVER
9 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use70 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDAVE WANNER
30 July 2020Naturalunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service2020-0730
29 June 2020Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2020 0058
25 June 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWANNER GARY
6 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceEDWIN WANNER
21 April 2018Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWANNER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stark 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 Lehigh: 1 producer. 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
Fisher Industries Plant #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Stark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lehigh in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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 2008HailLehigh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Stark 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
Dickinson5.1 miles6
Gladstone6.7 miles5
Eland9.9 miles5
Taylor14.5 miles5
Lefor14.7 miles5
South Heart15.7 miles5
Schefield15.8 miles5
Richardton20.1 miles5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1029860. 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.