Ojata, North Dakota

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Oakville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58228. The Survey maps it on the Emerado quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ojata within Grand Forks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1934 USGS Emerado quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Emerado quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Emerado quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Emerado quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ojata (historical) between 1996 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	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 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-00064
1 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Devil's Lake Wetland Management District	HAYFIRE
7 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	MM 344, US 2 TREE ROW
2 July 2013	Fireworks	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
25 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	HIGHWAY 2 FIRE
24 May 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Devil's Lake Wetland Management District	PENDER WPA
17 May 2013	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	22
29 April 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2018-30

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks 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 Ojata (historical): 1 unknown. 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
	East Roader Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Grand Forks 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
Kelly	4.5 miles	13
Powell	4.8 miles	13
Emerado	5.1 miles	16
Mekinock	8.3 miles	9
Calspur	9.7 miles	16
Merrifield	9.8 miles	13
North Grand Forks	10.4 miles	16
Arvilla	12.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034421. 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.