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Fairmount, North Dakota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Fairmount Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58030. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle. 343 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Fairmount within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairmount fell from 367 to 343 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
2010367
2020343-24 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairmount in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 14 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindFairmount$300,000A squall with embedded microburst moved across the Fairmount area, snapping large branches and smaller trees at numerous rural properties and in the town itself. The overhead doors were blown in on a few garages and an industrial building. A fertilizer plant had a large north-facing overhead door blown in and a section of its northeast side wall blown out.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindFairmount$200,000Trees and buildings were damaged by the strong wind.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFairmount$35,000Strong winds completely demolished a 50x100 foot pole shed, and scattered debris for a half mile. Many trees were blown down, windows were broken, and a propane tank was blown over. Another barn at a neighboring farm was also destroyed.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindFairmount$2,000Numerous large trees were blown down and uprooted.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindFairmount$500Several small trees were blown down.
July 2021HailFairmount-Reports of dime to half dollar sized hail posted via social media.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFairmount-The top of the water tower was taken off in Fairmount.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Numerous large tree branches were broken down in Fairmount and in neighboring sections of Fairmount Township.
September 2008Flash FloodFairmount-Heavy rains produced 3 to 4 inch accumulations during the early morning and resulted in widespread street flooding. Water backed into some business entryways and into business and home basements. Several farm fields and some farm access roads were reported under water in areas between Hankinson and Fairmount, where the heaviest rains occurred.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Large tree branches were blown down along with some power lines.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFairmount-75 mph winds hit the town of Fairmount, blowing down hundreds of trees. 40 homes in town reported some sort of damage. Trees fell on power lines, knocking out power to many residences. Advertising signs at the baseball field were also blown around.
June 2005Flash FloodFairmount-Over two inches of rain fell quickly, flooding city streets.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Large branches were blown down.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Numerous large trees were snapped off about 15 feet off the ground.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFairmount-Power lines were blown down with extensive tree damage.
July 2000Flash FloodFairmount-The westbound lane of highway 11 was flooded by the heavy rain.
September 1997HailFairmount-The hail lasted for 20 minutes.
August 2018HailFairmount-no account filed
June 2015HailFairmount-no account filed
June 2007Funnel CloudFairmount-no account filed
June 2005HailFairmount-no account filed
October 2004HailFairmount-no account filed
August 2004HailFairmount-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFairmount-no account filed
July 2004HailFairmount-no account filed
August 2001HailFairmount-no account filed
June 1999HailFairmount-no account filed
August 1999HailFairmount-no account filed
July 1998HailFairmount-no account filed
July 1998HailFairmount-no account filed
June 1997HailFairmount-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Blackmer5.3 miles13
Tyler6.5 miles9
Oswald6.7 miles9
Sonora7.4 miles9
La Mars7.8 miles13
Elmore9.7 miles9
Great Bend12.6 miles10
Wahpeton14.5 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 FairmountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1979537The 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 1028925. 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.

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.