Merida, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the South McLean unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58577. It stands on Turtle Creek (historical). The Survey maps it on the Sanger quadrangle.

Merida within McLean County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1950 USGS Wilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Sanger quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Merida between 2008 and 2016, burning about 76 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 burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
23 July 2015	Railroad operations and maintenance	40 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	RR/JENNINGS
17 May 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	36 acres	Audubon National Wildlife Refuge	LOST LAKE RAILROAD
5 March 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	HWY 200A MM 923

Every fire recorded in McLean 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
Washburn	6.2 miles	9
Wilton	9.7 miles	8
Falkirk	12.0 miles	9
Underwood	18.4 miles	8
Turtle Lake	19.2 miles	8
Mercer	20.6 miles	6
Riverdale Junction	22.0 miles	8
Coleharbor	26.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033780. 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.