BlockWheatland Colony, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Tower Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58071. The Survey maps it on the Tower City quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1897 USGS Tower quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Tower City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
13 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Wheatland Colony between 2015 and 2020, burning about 25 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 10000134 |
| 10 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 10000112 |
| 14 July 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1000102 |
| 3 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | TOWER CITY BALE FIRE |
| 3 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1000110 |
| 26 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-35 |
| 14 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | SHELTER BELT FIRE 05142019 |
| 25 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 04252019 GRASS FIRE |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122558967 | 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 2745995. 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.