Sully Springs, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the South Billings unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58645. The Survey maps it on the Tracy Mountain quadrangle. It stands 2,585 feet above sea level.

Sully Springs 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 Tracy Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Belfield quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Tracy Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Sully Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 795 acres in total. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
26 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	EAST SULLY SPRINGS
26 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.2 acres	Theodore Roosevelt National Park	RAILROAD RIP RAP
23 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Theodore Roosevelt National Park	I-94
18 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	2.4 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	WEST PORT 14-24
9 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	MM34TWINS
26 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	OUCH
26 August 2000	Natural	66 acres	Dakota Prairie National Grasslands	TALKINGTON 4
26 August 2000	Natural	278 acres	Theodore Roosevelt National Park	PAINTEDCYN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Billings County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sully Springs: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Scoria Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Scoria Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	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	4.7 miles	7
Scoria Point	6.6 miles	7
Medora	7.7 miles	6
Six Mile Corner	13.2 miles	7
Gorham	19.9 miles	8
Fairfield	24.0 miles	9

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 Sully Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636468	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 1033916. 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.