BlockTwin Buttes, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Berthold unorganized territory. It lies in ZIP code area 58636. The Survey maps it on the Twin Buttes quadrangle. It stands 2,221 feet above sea level.
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.
- 1953 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Twin Buttes quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS Watford City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Parshall quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Twin Buttes between 1993 and 2019, burning about 192 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | MOSSETTE |
| 5 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | TWIN BUTTES |
| 27 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | TBBUS |
| 2 September 2012 | Natural | 50 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | RIDGE |
| 19 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | NO. EIGHT |
| 6 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | LITTLE BOOM |
| 6 July 2012 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | I KNOW |
| 5 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Fort Berthold Agency | TSCHAEKOSTKE |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Twin Buttes | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7858098 | 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 1032562. 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.