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Prosper, North Dakota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Raymond Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58042. The Survey maps it on the Mapleton quadrangle.

Prosper within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

9 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Prosper between 2017 and 2020, burning about 9 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
21 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service16878 CAROLYN DR.
3 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
9 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service497
17 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
14 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
11 May 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service5/11/2019
24 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
22 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCONTROLLED BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prosper in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindProsper$500no account filed
June 2020Thunderstorm WindProsper-The wind gust was measured by a personal weather station.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindProsper-A few three to five inch diameter tree branches were blown down in a shelterbelt.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindProsper-Large branches were broken off trees at a farmstead.
June 2012HailProsper-Wind driven hail caused brief whiteout conditions. Pea to dime sized hail covered the ground.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindProsper-The 62 mph wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor northwest of Prosper.
September 2005HailProsper-The hail chipped paint and dented roofing.
July 2018HailProsper-no account filed
August 2007HailProsper-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindProsper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Newman4.6 miles13
Mapleton5.4 miles13
Fife6.1 miles24
Pinkham6.8 miles24
Brooktree Park7.1 miles9
Harwood7.5 miles24
Argusville7.6 miles9
Riverside8.3 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1030817. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.