BlockPort Emma, North Dakota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Port Emma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58474. The Survey maps it on the Guelph quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1894 USGS Oakes quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1895 USGS Lamoure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Guelph quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Port Emma (historical) in 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GALEN BRANDT FIRE |
| 21 April 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KAINE K |
| 28 November 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CARLSONS REKINDLE |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ludden | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Eaton (historical) | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Guelph | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Hudson (historical) | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Norway | 8.4 miles | 13 | |
| Oakes | 9.1 miles | 13 | |
| Clement | 10.6 miles | 13 | |
| Silverleaf | 12.0 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034527. 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.