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Wabek, North Dakota

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Plaza Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58771. The Survey maps it on the Wabek quadrangle.

Wabek within Mountrail County

On record in Wabek

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 5 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.

Fires near this place

31 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Wabek between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,351 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1998Natural4.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyVIOGHT
8 September 1998Natural100 acresFort Berthold AgencySALLY
4 September 1998Natural700 acresFort Berthold AgencyJONHSON
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined298 acresFort Berthold AgencyKOKOV
28 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyHIGH LINE
4 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use64 acresFort Berthold AgencyFARMBOY
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreFort Berthold AgencyTOWER
29 August 2011Debris and open burning3.0 acresFort Berthold AgencyREFINERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mountrail 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Prairie Junction3.2 miles5
Plaza3.7 miles6
Parshall9.5 miles7
Epworth17.3 miles4
Belden24.6 miles4
Tagus25.9 miles6
Blaisdell25.9 miles4
New Town28.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1032655. 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.