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.
Population over time
2 figuresFairmount 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 367 | |
| 2020 | 343 | -24 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1904 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Fairmount quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wahpeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Storms near this place
31 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $300,000 | A 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $200,000 | Trees and buildings were damaged by the strong wind. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $35,000 | Strong 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $2,000 | Numerous large trees were blown down and uprooted. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | $500 | Several small trees were blown down. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Fairmount | - | Reports of dime to half dollar sized hail posted via social media. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | The top of the water tower was taken off in Fairmount. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | Numerous large tree branches were broken down in Fairmount and in neighboring sections of Fairmount Township. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Fairmount | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | Large tree branches were blown down along with some power lines. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Fairmount | - | Over two inches of rain fell quickly, flooding city streets. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | Numerous large trees were snapped off about 15 feet off the ground. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | Power lines were blown down with extensive tree damage. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Fairmount | - | The westbound lane of highway 11 was flooded by the heavy rain. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Fairmount | - | The hail lasted for 20 minutes. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| October 2004 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Fairmount | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Fairmount | - | 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 Fairmount | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1979537 | 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 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.





