BlockWild Rice, North Dakota
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Stanley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58047. It stands on Wild Rice River. The Survey maps it on the Hickson quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 24 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.
- 1895 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1897 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:125000, 12 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Hickson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
7 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wild Rice in 2020, burning about 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | I29 |
| 1 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | HURLEY CONTROL BURN |
| 1 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE ALOND INTERSTATE |
| 8 December 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 170TH AVE SE & 124TH AVE. S |
| 5 November 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | INTERSTATE 29 / 54 MM FIRE |
| 15 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 100TH AVE SOUTH & 57TH STREET SOUTH |
| 1 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 8505 25TH STREET SOUTH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wild Rice in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Hail | Wild Rice | - | The hail broke windows and dented siding. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wild Rice | - | The Davies High School pool was damaged. Benches with cement footings were overturned, large umbrellas destroyed, and light fixtures broken. |
| September 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Wild Rice | - | A tornado tracked from near the Wild Rice River to near the Red River, a track of about 1.5 miles. The tornado continued into Clay County (MN) about two miles northwest of Rustad. Signs and fences were destroyed by the tornado. Many trees were snapped off or uprooted, with branches and debris thrown downwind for hundreds of feet. Travel trailers parked near the Wild Rice Bar and Grill were flipped onto each other. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 110 mph. |
| July 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Wild Rice | - | The tornado tracked from southeast of Wild Rice toward the Red River. The tornado dissipated in Clay county west of Rustad. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Wild Rice | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Benedict | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| Briarwood | 2.8 miles | 25 | |
| Frontier | 3.9 miles | 25 | |
| Horace | 5.1 miles | 24 | |
| Oxbow | 5.1 miles | 24 | |
| Prairie Rose | 5.1 miles | 25 | |
| Hickson | 5.3 miles | 24 | |
| Fargo | 9.1 miles | 25 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Wild Rice | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8000766 | 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 1032805. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.