Mound, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Mound Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58651. The Survey maps it on the Boyce Creek East quadrangle.

Mound within Slope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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.

1953 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Boyce Creek East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Mound between 2002 and 2020, burning about 316 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
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
31 August 2011	Natural	76 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	NO MAN
27 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	POWELL
19 July 2011	Natural	13 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	MISSED THE HAY
18 July 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.1 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	CASH CREEK
15 July 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	39 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	NORTH CASH CREEK
27 March 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	185 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	CEMETERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Slope County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mound: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Slope 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
Mazda	10.4 miles	5
Three V Crossing	11.0 miles	6
Marmarth	12.2 miles	6
Walser Crossing	16.7 miles	6
Amidon	22.8 miles	6
Pierce	35.5 miles	5
De Sart	41.4 miles	5

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1035735. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.