Norway, North Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clement Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58474. The Survey maps it on the Glover quadrangle.

Norway within Dickey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1894 USGS Oakes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1895 USGS Lamoure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1918 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1952 USGS Glover quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

14 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Norway between 2013 and 2020, burning about 31 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	JOHN HANSON
9 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	JERRY K
17 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	JAMES HENNINGSON
13 August 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	GALEN BRANDT FIRE
19 June 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	522017
3 May 2018	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	GEMAR FIRE
27 April 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	TOM KELLY
21 April 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	242018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickey County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Norway: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Wiese Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Dickey 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
Oakes	2.9 miles	13
Clement	5.3 miles	13
Hudson (historical)	6.6 miles	13
Glover	7.1 miles	13
Port Emma (historical)	8.4 miles	13
Ludden	9.1 miles	13
Guelph	9.3 miles	13
Eaton (historical)	12.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033890. 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.