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Saint John, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the North Rolette unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58369. The Survey maps it on the Saint John quadrangle. 322 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,949 feet above sea level.

Saint John within Rolette County

Population over time

2 figures

Saint John fell from 341 to 322 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010341
2020322-19 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

349 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Saint John between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,045 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 66 were 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 burning147
Missing data/not specified/undetermined101
Arson/incendiarism66
Other causes11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencySO LATE
4 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyBUTCH
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarism14 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyBARN
30 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTurtle Mountain Agencynot named
29 September 2012Debris and open burning1.7 acresTurtle Mountain AgencyRUBBISH
28 September 2011Other causesunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencyJOE JOE
28 September 2010Other causesunder an acreTurtle Mountain AgencySPARKY
26 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreTurtle Mountain Agencynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rolette 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
Belcourt7.5 miles7
Rolla7.8 miles7
Shell Valley13.0 miles9
East Dunseith17.1 miles9
Kelvin18.0 miles9
Thorne18.4 miles7
San Haven19.0 miles9
Dunseith20.6 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Saint JohnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2443088The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1031147. 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.