McKenzie, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in McKenzie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58572. The Survey maps it on the McKenzie quadrangle. It stands 1,749 feet above sea level.

McKenzie within Burleigh 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.

1951 USGS McKenzie quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS McKenzie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of McKenzie between 2002 and 2019, burning about 27 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	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
4 July 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge	STERLING 3
30 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	MM 174 INTERSTATE 94
24 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge	HAY FIRE
30 May 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24 acres	Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge	STERLING 2
15 April 2004	Natural	1.0 acres	Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge	VICTOR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burleigh 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
Menoken	6.2 miles	10
Sterling	6.5 miles	7
Brittin	7.5 miles	5
Apple Valley	9.8 miles	10
Moffit	12.0 miles	5
Driscoll	14.5 miles	7
Pierce	15.0 miles	11
Hillcrest Acres	15.4 miles	11

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 McKenzie	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6801814	The 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 1030151. 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.