BlockRising, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Kottke Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58768. The Survey maps it on the Granville SW quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1949 USGS Granville SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rising between 2016 and 2019, burning about 18 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 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 367 |
| 2 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-10 |
| 21 April 2016 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TRANA |
| 7 December 2016 | Other causes | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 375 |
| 6 November 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 371 |
| 19 October 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2017-27 |
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 1033907. 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.