BlockShepard, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ball Hill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58425. The Survey maps it on the Cooperstown West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Cooperstown West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Shepard between 2016 and 2019, burning about 34 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 burning | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ROGER STOKKA |
| 26 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SHELTER BELT FIRE |
| 14 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MITCH DAHL |
| 29 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RINGSTAD |
| 28 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SAXBERG FIRE |
| 26 April 2019 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PAINTNER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shepard in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shepard | $20,000 | A small recreational vehicle was pushed more than 30 feet, crushing it. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Shepard | - | Heavy rain accompanied the large hail. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Shepard | - | The hail fell with very heavy rain. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Shepard | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Shepard | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Shepard | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooperstown | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hannaford | 6.0 miles | 8 | |
| Mardell (historical) | 8.3 miles | 9 | |
| Karnak | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Walum | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Revere | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Jessie | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Sutton | 16.3 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033797. 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.