Kinta, Oklahoma
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the West Haskell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74552. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kinta quadrangle. 285 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.
On record in Kinta
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 5 records
Kinta High Schoollisted 1988- Cotton Storage Houselisted 1980
- Edmund McCurtain Houselisted 1980
- Green McCurtain Houselisted 1971
- Scott Storelisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresKinta fell from 297 to 285 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 297 | |
| 2020 | 285 | -12 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 15 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.
- 1900 USGS Sansbois quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1909 USGS Sans Bois quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Sans Bois quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Sansbois quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Kinta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Kinta quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Eufaula quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Fort Smith quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
173 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Kinta between 1992 and 2018, burning about 8,325 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 64 were 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 | 67 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 64 |
| Debris and open burning | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20226 |
| 30 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | 20445 |
| 30 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2002 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Talihina Agency | EC270 |
| 27 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Talihina Agency | EC271 |
| 27 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Talihina Agency | EC272 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kinta in 38 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 19 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Kinta | $500,000 | Approximately 40 structures were damaged by flood waters. Numerous roads were flooded in town. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F2) | Kinta | $60,000 | An F2 tornado destroyed one single family dwelling, while another single family dwelling received major damage. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Kinta | $50,000 | Baseball size hail damaged homes and automobiles. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Kinta | $30,000 | A tornado damaged two barns, uprooted a tree, and damaged a home on the east side of town. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged outbuildings. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $2,000 | Trees and power poles were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $1,000 | Numerous trees were blown down near Kinta. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $500 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | $100 | A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed numerous large tree limbs in Kinta. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Kinta | - | Portions of Highway 31 between Highway 2 and Highway 82 were closed due to flooding. |
| December 2015 | Flood | Kinta | - | Portions of Highway 31 between Highway 2 and Highway 82 were closed due to flooding. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a small tree and snapped large tree limbs. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | Strong thunderstorm wind blew down multiple trees. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Kinta | - | Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flooding in Kinta. |
| April 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Kinta | - | An amateur radio operator reported a tornado one mile east of Kinta. No damage was reported. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Kinta | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kinta | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewisville | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Sans Bois | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Hughart | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Lequire | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Lafayette | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Whitefield | 9.2 miles | 15 | |
| Enterprise | 10.7 miles | 14 | |
| Hoyt | 11.1 miles | 14 |
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 Kinta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2532610 | 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 1094397. 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.










