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Lunds Valley, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Powers Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58784. The Survey maps it on the Lunds Valley quadrangle.

Lunds Valley within Mountrail County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Lunds Valley between 2005 and 2020, burning about 78 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2016002
16 April 2020Debris and open burning25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFLAX FIRE
27 November 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceOGDEN FIRE
24 October 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTIM JOHNSON FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail 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
Lostwood6.7 miles4
Wassaic11.2 miles4
Manitou13.2 miles4
Ross13.6 miles4
White Earth15.0 miles4
Stanley15.4 miles5
Palermo20.3 miles4
Belden26.5 miles4

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 Q122559925The 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 1030045. 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.