Rider, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Sentinel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58654. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Gap Campground quadrangle.

Rider within Golden Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1953 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Buffalo Gap Campground quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Belfield quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Buffalo Gap Campground quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Rider between 1992 and 2019, burning about 496 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	SQUARE BUTTE
25 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	TRACK FIRE
15 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	HWY 10 FIRE
15 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Theodore Roosevelt National Park	HWY 10
10 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
3 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	SULLY'S HOLE
3 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	CORRAL 7
26 August 2000	Natural	128 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	SQUARE BUTTE 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

De Mores

Every fire recorded in Golden Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rider: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Scoria Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Scoria Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Golden Valley 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
De Mores	5.6 miles	6
Sentinel Butte	10.7 miles	5
Chama	14.5 miles	5
Thelan	19.3 miles	5
Beach	19.5 miles	8
Ekre	19.6 miles	5
Alpha	20.1 miles	6
Golva	22.3 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1035090. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.