BlockMekinock, North Dakota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Blooming Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58258. The Survey maps it on the Mekinock quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1926 USGS Ardoch quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Mekinock quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grafton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Mekinock between 1996 and 2019, burning about 16 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HAYFIRE |
| 31 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 1751 21ST NE AVE GRASS/BRUSH FIRE |
| 24 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PENDER WPA |
| 15 April 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS |
| 18 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 49 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mekinock in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2000 | Flash Flood | Mekinock | $1,000,000 | The town of Mekinock, population 200, was evacuated after 15 to 20 inches of rain fell upstream along the Turtle River. |
| August 2025 | Tornado (EF0) | Mekinock | - | A tornado briefly developed in east Mekinock about 1.9 miles northeast of the Grand Forks Air Force Base. It caused damage to the garages of 3 different homes, with a maximum expected wind of 105 mph based on one garage that was completely destroyed. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mekinock | - | A large tree was snapped. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Mekinock | - | 55 mph winds were also reported at the time. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Mekinock | - | 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.
| Wikipedia article on Mekinock | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6810578 | 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 1030186. 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.