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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.

Kinta within Haskell County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Kinta 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.

YearPeople Change
2010297
2020285-12 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

173 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined67
Arson/incendiarism64
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2010Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20226
30 September 2011Debris and open burning10 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry20445
30 September 2002Debris and open burning14 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2002Smoking3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTalihina AgencyEC270
27 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresTalihina AgencyEC271
27 September 2002Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTalihina AgencyEC272

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Haskell County

Storms near this place

38 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017Flash FloodKinta$500,000Approximately 40 structures were damaged by flood waters. Numerous roads were flooded in town.
June 1998Tornado (F2)Kinta$60,000An F2 tornado destroyed one single family dwelling, while another single family dwelling received major damage.
April 2008HailKinta$50,000Baseball size hail damaged homes and automobiles.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Kinta$30,000A tornado damaged two barns, uprooted a tree, and damaged a home on the east side of town.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindKinta$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 80 miles an hour damaged outbuildings.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindKinta$2,000Trees and power poles were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindKinta$1,000Numerous trees were blown down near Kinta.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindKinta$500no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKinta$100A severe thunderstorm produced strong winds which downed numerous large tree limbs in Kinta.
December 2015FloodKinta-Portions of Highway 31 between Highway 2 and Highway 82 were closed due to flooding.
December 2015FloodKinta-Portions of Highway 31 between Highway 2 and Highway 82 were closed due to flooding.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindKinta-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a small tree and snapped large tree limbs.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindKinta-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down multiple trees.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindKinta-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 2005Flash FloodKinta-Heavy thunderstorm rains caused flooding in Kinta.
April 2003Tornado (F0)Kinta-An amateur radio operator reported a tornado one mile east of Kinta. No damage was reported.
March 2024HailKinta-no account filed
June 2014HailKinta-no account filed
April 2008HailKinta-no account filed
March 2008HailKinta-no account filed
April 2008HailKinta-no account filed
May 2008HailKinta-no account filed
May 2008HailKinta-no account filed
March 2006HailKinta-no account filed
April 2006HailKinta-no account filed
April 2005HailKinta-no account filed
June 2005HailKinta-no account filed
March 2002HailKinta-no account filed
May 2001HailKinta-no account filed
May 2001HailKinta-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindKinta-no account filed
May 1999HailKinta-no account filed
May 1999HailKinta-no account filed
May 1998Funnel CloudKinta-no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F1)Kinta-no account filed
January 1995HailKinta-no account filed
June 1995HailKinta-no account filed
April 1995Thunderstorm WindKinta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Haskell 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
Lewisville2.1 miles17
Sans Bois4.4 miles13
Hughart6.5 miles15
Lequire7.0 miles15
Lafayette8.1 miles14
Whitefield9.2 miles15
Enterprise10.7 miles14
Hoyt11.1 miles14

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 KintaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2532610The 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.