BlockPrairie Junction, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Plaza Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58771. The Survey maps it on the Wabek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 5 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 McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Wabek quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Prairie Junction between 1998 and 2019, burning about 942 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | VIOGHT |
| 8 September 1998 | Natural | 100 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | SALLY |
| 4 September 1998 | Natural | 700 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | JONHSON |
| 28 September 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | HIGH LINE |
| 3 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Berthold Agency | TOWER |
| 29 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | REFINERY |
| 17 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | PARK FIRE |
| 8 July 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Fort Berthold Agency | WARD |
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 1033905. 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.