Schmidt, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the East Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58554. It stands on Little Heart River. The Survey maps it on the Schmidt quadrangle.

Schmidt within Morton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1907 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Schmidt quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Schmidt between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,293 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
5 September 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
29 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	8300 12TH ST SE
24 August 2004	Natural	450 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	DESERT
6 June 2002	Recreation and ceremony	384 acres	Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge	BISRURAL 1
27 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	LITTLE HEART BOTTOMS
25 June 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017-295
16 May 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	6550 UNIVERSITY
12 May 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SIBLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morton 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
Lynwood	6.7 miles	7
On-a-Slant Village (historical)	7.3 miles	11
Huff	7.7 miles	7
Saint Anthony	8.0 miles	7
Twin City Estates	10.6 miles	11
Meadow Park	11.5 miles	10
Frontier Homesteads	11.6 miles	11
Mandan	12.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1031381. 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.