Vanville, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Vanville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58746. The Survey maps it on the Vanville NE quadrangle.

Vanville within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 printed sheets

Matched 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.

1948 USGS Vanville NE quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Vanville NE quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Vanville between 1995 and 2018, burning about 54 acres in total. 1 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	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
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
15 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	SMITH
9 August 2007	Natural	9.0 acres	Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge	ASPEN UNIT WF
10 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge	MOWING-1
10 June 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	80TH AVENUE POWER LINE
19 April 1995	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge	MYRR

Every fire recorded in Burke County

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coteau	9.2 miles	6
Bowbells	13.7 miles	8
Woburn	14.0 miles	6
Powers Lake	15.3 miles	5
Flaxton	18.6 miles	7
Perella	19.9 miles	6
Lignite	19.9 miles	7
Sevenmile Corner	20.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033736. 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.