BlockPower, North Dakota
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Helendale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58052. The Survey maps it on the Power quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Power quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1998 USGS Power quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Power between 1992 and 2019, burning about 606 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 18 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | BLOCK D |
| 3 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.2 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | EAST I MIDDLE |
| 25 May 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Custer Gallatin National Forest | PARTY A |
| 15 May 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 60 acres | Custer Gallatin National Forest | not named |
| 10 May 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.7 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | BERG CREEK |
| 25 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | D EAST |
| 22 April 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | HILL CLIMB |
| 22 October 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 498 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | NORTHWEST D |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033904. 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.