BlockTimmer, North Dakota
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Morton unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58570. It stands on Louse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Timmer quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1954 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Bismarck quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Timmer quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Elgin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Timmer between 1996 and 2017, burning about 32 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 August 1999 | Other causes | under an acre | Standing Rock Agency | SWALLOWS |
| 7 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BREIEN |
| 28 July 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | OLSEN GRASS FIRE |
| 1 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | LELAND OLSEN |
| 2 April 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.1 acres | Standing Rock Agency | 6/24 FIRE |
| 17 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MORRELL FIRE |
| 21 March 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Standing Rock Agency | C-MO |
| 8 February 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Standing Rock Agency | SAND DUDUN |
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 Q122595997 | 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 1032489. 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.