Wisner, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Springer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58054. It lies near Oestreicher Hill. The Survey maps it on the Nome SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Wisner within Ransom County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1897 USGS Tower quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Nome SE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wisner (historical) between 2017 and 2018, burning about 2 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	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
1 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	01-MAY-18 GRASS FIRE
26 October 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	GUTHRIE

Every fire recorded in Ransom 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
Fort Ransom	5.9 miles	10
Elliott	8.2 miles	7
Lisbon	9.0 miles	7
Buttzville	9.8 miles	10
Englevale	10.3 miles	7
Enderlin	13.3 miles	10
Brockway (historical)	16.1 miles	7
Anselm	16.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1034590. 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.