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Kintyre, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Campbell Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58549. The Survey maps it on the Kintyre quadrangle. It stands 2,756 feet above sea level.

Kintyre within Emmons County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Kintyre between 2012 and 2020, burning about 25 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 April 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceLONNIE SUNDE
10 October 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBRADDOCK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emmons County

Storms near this place

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kintyre in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
June 2021Flash FloodKintyre$600,000Over five inches of rain was measured over parts of west-central into northeast Emmons County, with over seven inches indicated on radar, leading to flash flooding. In Hazelton, streets and yards flooded. Near Braddock, a mail delivery vehicle was swept away in flood waters, along with another vehicle. Multiple rural roads were heavily damaged.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKintyre$350,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in a pole barn being destroyed and a stock trailer rolled approximately 200 feet. Also on the farmstead, a garage roof was ripped off, a well house was totaled, a grain bin blown over, and windows were blown out of vehicles.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindKintyre$300,000Widespread damage occurred in the Kintyre area. A farm house about one mile northeast of town was extensively damaged. In the farmyard, three buildings sustained major damage with many broken trees. In town, many trees were damaged, with many evergreen trees snapped off about ten feet off the ground. Other trees were uprooted.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKintyre$200,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in a storage shelter destroyed at the Kintyre Centennial Park. Also damaged was a 50,000 bushel bin at the South Central Grain elevator in Kintyre.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindKintyre$125,000Strong thunderstorm winds resulted in a historic barn destroyed near Kintyre.
July 2011Heavy RainKintyre-Heavy rainfall of 2.3 inches over a two hour period was reported.
June 2010HailKintyre-The large hail resulted in significant damage to crops on a farm south of Kintyre. Crop damage was estimated.
August 2006HailKintyre-Hail was piled in drifts. Severe size hail lasted 10 minutes with largest stone 1.75 inch diameter.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindKintyre-no account filed
August 2020HailKintyre-no account filed
May 2019HailKintyre-no account filed
July 2016HailKintyre-no account filed
August 2015HailKintyre-no account filed
June 2013HailKintyre-no account filed
June 2013HailKintyre-no account filed
May 2010HailKintyre-no account filed
July 2010HailKintyre-no account filed
August 1998HailKintyre-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emmons 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
Braddock7.6 miles5
Dana15.2 miles5
Hazelton18.1 miles5
Temvik20.5 miles5
Linton24.6 miles5
Strasburg30.8 miles5
Livona31.8 miles8
Hague36.0 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.

Wikipedia article on KintyreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6414410The 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 1029746. 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.