BlockTilden, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Riggin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58351. The Survey maps it on the Tilden quadrangle. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1932 USGS Grahams Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Grahams Island quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Tilden quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Tilden quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tilden between 1996 and 2019, burning about 221 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 220 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PELICAN LK |
| 2 November 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 201932 |
| 23 October 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Fort Totten Agency | BON FYRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tilden in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Hail | Tilden | - | Some crop damage was noted across northeast Riggin Township. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Tilden | - | The large hail was accompanied by very strong winds, which were estimated to be 50 mph or greater. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Tilden | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Tilden | - | no account filed |
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 Q7802088 | 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 1032483. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.