Hampden, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Hampden City. It lies in ZIP code area 58338. The Survey maps it on the Hampden quadrangle. 29 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,572 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresHampden fell from 48 to 29 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 | 48 | |
| 2020 | 29 | -19 (-40%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Hampden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hampden between 1996 and 2017, burning about 2,758 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | NELSON WPA |
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HAMPDEN |
| 18 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | DAHL |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 480 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PHILAUS |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 195 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | THORSONWPA |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 160 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | STORLIEWPA |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | DAHLWPA |
| 22 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PHILAUS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
15 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hampden in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Hail | Hampden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Hampden | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampden | - | The wind gust was measured by a RAWS station. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Hampden | - | A quick half inch of rain also fell. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampden | - | The wind gust was measured by a RAWS mesonet sensor. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampden | - | Several large three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down at a farmstead. Power lines were also blown down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampden | - | Peak wind measured at the Hampden RAWS sensor. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Hampden | - | The hail fell along the Ramsey and Cavalier County line. The report was made by NSSL SHAVE07 project personnel. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampden | - | A Davis weather system measured a peak wind speed of 91 mph until electricity was lost. Numerous trees were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampden | - | A large 80,000 bushel grain bin was blown down at the Hampden elevator complex. The roof was also torn off the main elevator building. Numerous trees were snapped off or uprooted nearby. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hampden | - | A 103 mph wind gust was measured by a RAWS mesonet site. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Hampden | - | Basement flooding was reported in Hampden, where 5.25 inches of rain fell. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Hampden | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Hampden | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Hampden | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derrick | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Starkweather | 13.6 miles | 8 | |
| Edmore | 13.8 miles | 7 | |
| Saint Joe | 14.6 miles | 7 | |
| Garske | 17.3 miles | 8 | |
| Webster | 21.3 miles | 8 | |
| Lawton | 22.3 miles | 7 | |
| Sweetwater | 25.2 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 Hampden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q339118 | 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 1029294. 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.



