BlockMyra, North Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Gill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58079. The Survey maps it on the Chaffee quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Chaffee quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Myra between 2008 and 2020, burning about 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-028 |
| 6 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 36TH ST 148TH AVE |
| 5 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 5/5/2019 |
| 2 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | I-94 MM326 |
| 11 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-030 |
| 4 November 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 11/4/2020 |
| 29 November 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CASSELTON 2020-00069 |
| 17 November 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | PAINTNER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Myra in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
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 1033884. 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.