BlockSundale Colony, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It lies in ZIP code area 58060. The Survey maps it on the Milnor quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Milnor quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1998 USGS Milnor quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
9 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sundale Colony between 2013 and 2019, burning about 1,716 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FIRE IN CRP |
| 7 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1,382 acres | Dakota Prairie National Grasslands | GREGOR |
| 3 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SPIECH |
| 29 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 74TH ST GRASS FIRE |
| 16 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 75TH ST GRASS FIRE |
| 14 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | STORM LAKE CONTROLLED BURN |
| 11 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ELLEFSON FIELD FIRE |
| 22 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 160 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GIBBON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122559962 | 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 2745994. 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.