BlockWamduska, North Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wamduska Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58344. The Survey maps it on the Pekin NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1930 USGS Pekin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Pekin quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Pekin NW quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Stump Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wamduska (historical) between 2010 and 2018, burning about 2,256 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-6 |
| 4 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 800 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-5 |
| 3 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1,440 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-4 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-3 |
| 21 October 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Fort Totten Agency | 146 |
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 1034404. 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.