BlockMilroy, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Northeast McHenry unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58788. The Survey maps it on the Bantry quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1949 USGS Bantry quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Bantry quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Milroy between 1993 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 92520 |
| 4 August 2006 | Natural | 92 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | FOUR AM FIRE |
| 31 August 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 150 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | BENEDICT |
| 18 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 9.5 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | 341EAST |
| 2 October 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | WARD WELL |
| 18 October 1993 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | 2CCC CAMP |
| 11 October 1993 | Smoking | 6.5 acres | J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge | CCC CAMP |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milroy in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| May 2018 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033882. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.