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Parkhurst, North Dakota

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Midway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58401. The Survey maps it on the Eldridge quadrangle.

Parkhurst within Stutsman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Parkhurst between 1999 and 2020, burning about 226 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service220312
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFort Totten AgencyMS1616
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service30412
30 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service180315
4 July 2016Fireworks1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service40316
18 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service80312
12 June 2019Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10319
1 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service10239

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stutsman County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Parkhurst: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
JamestownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcelroy MoranSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stutsman 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
Jamestown5.1 miles13
Frontier Village6.6 miles13
Fried6.9 miles12
Buchanan7.2 miles13
Eldridge7.4 miles12
Bloom8.4 miles11
Jamestown Junction8.9 miles11
Homer9.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033896. 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.