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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.

Hampden within Ramsey County

Population over time

2 figures

Hampden 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.

YearPeople Change
201048
202029-19 (-40%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

25 since 1996

Regional 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/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
24 September 1997Debris and open burning40 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictNELSON WPA
23 September 2007Debris and open burning24 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictHAMPDEN
18 June 2013Debris and open burning11 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictDAHL
6 May 1998Arson/incendiarism480 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPHILAUS
6 May 1998Arson/incendiarism195 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictTHORSONWPA
6 May 1998Arson/incendiarism160 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictSTORLIEWPA
6 May 1998Arson/incendiarism25 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictDAHLWPA
22 May 1996Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPHILAUS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008HailHampden$5,000no account filed
August 2008HailHampden$5,000no account filed
August 2018Thunderstorm WindHampden-The wind gust was measured by a RAWS station.
June 2018HailHampden-A quick half inch of rain also fell.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindHampden-The wind gust was measured by a RAWS mesonet sensor.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindHampden-Several large three to five inch diameter tree branches were broken down at a farmstead. Power lines were also blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindHampden-Peak wind measured at the Hampden RAWS sensor.
July 2007HailHampden-The hail fell along the Ramsey and Cavalier County line. The report was made by NSSL SHAVE07 project personnel.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHampden-A Davis weather system measured a peak wind speed of 91 mph until electricity was lost. Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHampden-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 2005Thunderstorm WindHampden-A 103 mph wind gust was measured by a RAWS mesonet site.
July 2000Flash FloodHampden-Basement flooding was reported in Hampden, where 5.25 inches of rain fell.
April 2004HailHampden-no account filed
May 2004HailHampden-no account filed
June 2001HailHampden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
Derrick6.7 miles7
Starkweather13.6 miles8
Edmore13.8 miles7
Saint Joe14.6 miles7
Garske17.3 miles8
Webster21.3 miles8
Lawton22.3 miles7
Sweetwater25.2 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 HampdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q339118The 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.