Lynwood, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58554. It stands on North Branch Little Heart River. The Survey maps it on the Lynwood quadrangle.

Lynwood within Morton 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.

1907 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:100000
1980 USGS Lynwood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lynwood between 2017 and 2018, burning about 4 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	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WEINBERGER FIELD
9 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	CHAD BERGER HAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morton 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
Saint Anthony	3.4 miles	7
Schmidt	6.7 miles	8
On-a-Slant Village (historical)	7.6 miles	11
Meadow Park	10.6 miles	10
Twin City Estates	11.1 miles	11
Mandan	11.1 miles	10
Frontier Homesteads	11.1 miles	11
Sunny	11.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033707. 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.