BlockPetrel, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Gilstrap Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57638. The Survey maps it on the White Butte quadrangle. It stands 2,566 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS White Butte quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Lemmon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS White Butte quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
24 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Petrel between 2000 and 2020, burning about 5,354 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | 3,500 acres | Isabel Volunteer Fire Department | LADUE/ WESINGER |
| 8 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 8 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 27 August 2003 | Natural | 65 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PRIEST |
| 12 August 2010 | Natural | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BALE FIRE 2 |
| 12 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 9 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | PARADE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petrel in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Hail | Petrel | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Lemmon | 6.3 miles | 6 | |
| Haynes | 10.4 miles | 7 | |
| Hettinger | 19.4 miles | 5 | |
| Bucyrus | 28.2 miles | 4 | |
| Reeder | 37.1 miles | 5 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Petrel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7178747 | 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 1033784. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.