BlockPerella, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1982. It stands in North Star Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58721. The Survey maps it on the Northgate quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1949 USGS Northgate quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Flaxton quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Perella between 2005 and 2020, burning about 120 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2020 | Natural | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 4172 |
| 6 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | FOLSKE |
| 22 May 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GANSKO |
| 4 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BRIESN |
| 18 October 2017 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BOWBELLS GRASS FIRE 2017015 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikidata item Q122597766 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033899. 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.