BlockLeyden, North Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Advance Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58282. The Survey maps it on the Leroy quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1918 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leroy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cavalier quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Leyden between 2002 and 2020, burning about 412 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 July 2019 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BNSF RAILROAD FIRE |
| 9 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD 9 MILLRACE |
| 21 May 2002 | Debris and open burning | 370 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | WALHALLA |
| 18 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BEAULIEU HILL |
| 17 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BUSH ROAD GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leyden in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leyden | - | The wind gust was reported by a personal weather station. There were reports of many tree tops broken off. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Leyden | - | Very heavy rain fell around the Cavalier area, flooding streets and sidewalks. Some pea sized hail also fell with the rain. |
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 1033874. 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.
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.