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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.

Considine within Towner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 1999

Regional 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 burning7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 May 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWATER TOWER FIRE
29 May 2018Debris and open burning41 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictGRINDE
18 May 2016Debris and open burning400 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBROMBERG FIRE
13 May 2018Arson/incendiarism103 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictJOHNSON
10 May 1999Debris and open burning11 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictGRINDE
29 April 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictNIKOLAISEN
13 April 2016Debris and open burning227 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictNIKOLIASON
13 March 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBOOTH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Towner County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018HailConsidine-Very heavy rain accompanied the large hail.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindConsidine-The wind gust was measured by mobile equipment.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Considine-A brief tornado touchdown occurred.
June 2009Tornado (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 2020HailConsidine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Towner 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Arndt5.3 miles7
Cando6.5 miles7
Bisbee6.7 miles7
Egeland10.8 miles7
Crocus12.0 miles7
Maza12.5 miles7
Perth14.1 miles7
Newville15.7 miles7

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 Q122548395The 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.