BlockTemple, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Golden Valley unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58852. The Survey maps it on the Temple quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1911 USGS Ray quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Temple quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Williston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Temple in 2015, burning about 809 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 | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HALVERSON FIRE |
| 20 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CVANCARA FIRE |
| 15 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 400 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ALAMO MUTUAL AID SKAARE FIRE |
| 11 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | ROSTEN FIRE |
| 9 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 360 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HEDLAND FIRE |
| 13 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SOLUM FIRE |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1032450. 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.