Wirch, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spring Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58413. The Survey maps it on the Merricourt SW quadrangle.

Wirch within Dickey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1896 USGS Edgeley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1925 USGS Edgeley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Merricourt SW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Wirch between 1997 and 2017, burning about 126 acres in total. 1 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
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 July 2002	Natural	3.0 acres	Kulm Wetlands Management District	ERLENBUSCH
11 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	WOLF
11 May 1997	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Custer Gallatin National Forest	HANKINSON
11 October 2015	Debris and open burning	100 acres	Kulm Wetlands Management District	REINKE WPA

Every fire recorded in Dickey 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Forbes	12.6 miles	8
Merricourt	13.2 miles	11
Monango	19.7 miles	12
Boynton	21.3 miles	12
Duane	21.3 miles	12
Keystone (historical)	22.1 miles	12
Ellendale	22.7 miles	12
Maple River Colony	26.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1033804. 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.