Considine, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Gerrard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58324. The Survey maps it on the Considine quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Considine quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Rock Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Considine between 1999 and 2018, burning about 913 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 | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WATER TOWER FIRE |
| 29 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 41 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | GRINDE |
| 18 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 400 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BROMBERG FIRE |
| 13 May 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 103 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | JOHNSON |
| 10 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | GRINDE |
| 29 April 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | NIKOLAISEN |
| 13 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 227 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | NIKOLIASON |
| 13 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BOOTH FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Considine in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Hail | Considine | - | Very heavy rain accompanied the large hail. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Considine | - | The wind gust was measured by mobile equipment. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Considine | - | A brief tornado touchdown occurred. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Considine | - | A North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board observer reported a brief touchdown north of their location. Another funnel cloud was visible to the east, but a tree line obscured the view of it. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Considine | - | 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.
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 Q122548395 | 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 1028442. 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.



