South West Fargo, North Dakota

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in West Fargo City. It lies in ZIP code area 58078. The Survey maps it on the West Fargo South quadrangle.

South West Fargo within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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.

1895 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1897 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 12 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS South West Fargo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS West Fargo South quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

22 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of South West Fargo between 2005 and 2020, burning about 41 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2

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
28 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
8 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	not named
9 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	38 ST S DITCH FIRE
9 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	64TH AVE. N. & 25TH ST. N. FARGO
7 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	FARM FEILD CONTROLLED BURN
30 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
3 June 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	North Dakota State Forest Service	GRASS FIRE
4 May 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	2017310

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
West Fargo	0.1 miles	24
Riverside	0.9 miles	24
Pinkham	3.2 miles	24
Fife	3.5 miles	24
Reiles Acres	3.9 miles	25
Prairie Rose	5.2 miles	25
Fargo	5.9 miles	25
Frontier	6.2 miles	25

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 Q122562083

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 1035865. 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.