Six Mile Corner, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the North Billings unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58622. The Survey maps it on the Belfield quadrangle. It stands 2,638 feet above sea level.

Six Mile Corner within Billings County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Dickinson quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Belfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Belfield quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Belfield quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Six Mile Corner between 2000 and 2020, burning about 1,954 acres in total. 5 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	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Fireworks	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
6 August 2020	Fireworks	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	MARKER 93
31 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	HEART RIVER SOUTH
26 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	HEART RIVER NORTH
26 August 2000	Natural	1,866 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	TALKINGTON 1
18 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	DAVE KUBAS
8 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Theodore Roosevelt National Park	CITY FIRE
31 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	28 STREET
30 July 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	29 STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Billings 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 Six Mile Corner: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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
Frank	Uranium	Past Producer
Hecker No. 2	Uranium	Past Producer
Johnson	Uranium	Past Producer
Luptak No. 1	Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Billings 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
Fryburg	9.6 miles	7
Gorham	13.1 miles	8
Sully Springs	13.2 miles	7
Fairfield	14.5 miles	9
Scoria Point	16.0 miles	7
Medora	18.3 miles	6

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.

Wikidata item Q14708388

The 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 1035152. 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.