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Manfred, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Manfred Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58341. The Survey maps it on the Fessenden West quadrangle. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Manfred within Wells County

On record in Manfred

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Manfred in 1999, burning about 11 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 burning1

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 December 1999Debris and open burning11 acresChase Lake Prairie Project Wetland Management DistrictSCHLINDLER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wells 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
Fessenden7.0 miles10
Heimdal8.7 miles10
Wellsburg9.5 miles10
Harvey11.2 miles10
Hamberg13.2 miles10
Emrick14.3 miles10
Bowdon15.7 miles8
Chaseley17.3 miles7

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.

Wikipedia article on ManfredAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6748473The 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 1030081. 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.