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Pittsburgh, North Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Drayton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58225. The Survey maps it on the Bowesmont quadrangle.

Pittsburgh within Pembina County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pittsburgh in 2007, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1

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
17 April 2007Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pembina 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
Drayton4.0 miles13
Bowesmont4.2 miles13
Fleece9.2 miles14
Joliette13.3 miles14
Saint Thomas14.2 miles11
Dimock (historical)14.3 miles10
Glasston15.2 miles10
McArthur17.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033902. 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.