BlockVerendrye, North Dakota
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Falsen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58792. The Survey maps it on the Bergen quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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 Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Bergen quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Verendrye between 2005 and 2019, burning about 69 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 August 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KELLER CRP BNRAIL |
| 2 August 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD |
| 20 May 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2019-12 |
| 12 March 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURLINGTON NORTHERN |
| 11 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GREG JOHNSON |
| 12 November 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
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 1032639. 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.