Pierce, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Woodberry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58653. The Survey maps it on the Warnke Hill quadrangle. It stands 2,795 feet above sea level.

Pierce within Slope County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Warnke Hill quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Bowman quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pierce in 2005, burning about 2 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
Natural	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
5 September 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Slope 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
De Sart	6.3 miles	5
Amidon	16.0 miles	6
Walser Crossing	33.4 miles	6
Mound	35.5 miles	5
Three V Crossing	40.7 miles	6
Mazda	42.1 miles	5
Marmarth	45.2 miles	6

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 Q14708379

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 1033786. 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.