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Fingal, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Binghampton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58031. The Survey maps it on the Fingal quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.

Fingal within Barnes County

Population over time

2 figures

Fingal fell from 97 to 92 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201097
202092-5 (-5%)

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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fingal between 2001 and 2016, burning about 152 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 burning3

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
16 August 2005Debris and open burning20 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
16 April 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFINGAL FIRE
26 October 2001Debris and open burning129 acresValley City Wetland Management DistrictBLIKRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barnes County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fingal in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 18 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindFingal$500,000One steel four pole power tower was crumpled and numerous trees were snapped off. Additional towers in adjacent Cass County were also destroyed. Wind driven hail also caused crop damage in Springvale and Binghampton Townships.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindFingal$250,000Many trees and powerlines were blown down and several roofs were damaged.
September 1997Thunderstorm WindFingal$100,000The strong wind destroyed three grain bins, ripped the doors off a machine shed, and caused roof damage to the farm buildings. A new grain auger was also destroyed.
August 1994Thunderstorm WindFingal$20,000no account filed
August 1994Tornado (F0)Fingal$5,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFingal-Peak wind gust was measured at an NDAWN station at 3 meters.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Fingal-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
June 2007FloodFingal-Levees and ditches were built around Fingal to help keep overland flooding away from the town. Even so, about one-quarter of the towns 60 homes ended up with basement flooding. Several rural roads were also flooded by the heavy rain.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFingal-Trees were blown down in Fingal.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFingal-Strong winds broke off several large tree branches in a farm yard and tore a few shingles off a shed. The storm also produced heavy rain and pea sized hail.
June 1997Flash FloodFingal-4.6 inches of rain quickly flooded cropland and low-lying areas.
May 2019HailFingal-no account filed
June 2007HailFingal-no account filed
May 2005HailFingal-no account filed
September 2005HailFingal-no account filed
September 2005HailFingal-no account filed
September 2005HailFingal-no account filed
August 2001HailFingal-no account filed
July 2001HailFingal-no account filed
September 2000HailFingal-no account filed
August 2000HailFingal-no account filed
August 2000HailFingal-no account filed
July 2000HailFingal-no account filed
June 1999HailFingal-no account filed
July 1999HailFingal-no account filed
July 1998HailFingal-no account filed
August 1997HailFingal-no account filed
September 1997HailFingal-no account filed
August 1994HailFingal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barnes 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
Lucca5.3 miles10
Cuba5.7 miles10
Nome5.8 miles10
Kibby (historical)5.9 miles10
Eastedge9.0 miles10
Daily10.3 miles10
Kathryn11.0 miles10
Oriska11.7 miles11

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 FingalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28452The 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 1028958. 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.