Long Creek, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Truax Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58843. It stands on Long Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chris Creek quadrangle.

Long Creek within Williams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1911 USGS Ray quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Chris Creek quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Williston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Long Creek between 2005 and 2015, burning about 31 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

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
29 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
30 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	LAKESIDE WHITING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Lunds Landing

Every fire recorded in Williams 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
Lake Jessie	6.9 miles	7
Lunds Landing	7.7 miles	7
Epping	13.3 miles	7
Wheelock	13.4 miles	7
Spring Brook	14.9 miles	7
Avoca	15.2 miles	6
Ray	17.5 miles	7
Williston	19.3 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2805289. 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.