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Otter Creek, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the West Oliver unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58563. The Survey maps it on the Otter Creek quadrangle.

Otter Creek within Oliver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Otter Creek in 2016, burning about 8 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
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 April 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSCHEIDT
26 March 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBARRY FISCHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oliver 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hannover8.1 miles5
Center14.3 miles6
Fort Clark20.8 miles6
Hensler28.9 miles9
Sanger31.0 miles8
Price32.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033895. 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.