Karlsruhe, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Karlsruhe City. It lies in ZIP code area 58744. The Survey maps it on the Karlsruhe quadrangle. 87 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,542 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKarlsruhe grew from 82 to 87 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 | 82 | |
| 2020 | 87 | +5 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Karlsruhe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Minot quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Velva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Karlsruhe between 2005 and 2016, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KELLER CRP BNRAIL |
| 4 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 2 August 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD |
| 16 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | NO NAME |
| 16 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | PUIS BLACK |
| 14 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DENNIS BOSSART |
| 12 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KENNY GEFROH |
| 12 March 2016 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURLINGTON NORTHERN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Karlsruhe in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 13 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Karlsruhe | $100,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts to 75 mph combined with hail to the size of golf balls to cause significant damage. Window screens were shredded on a home and a camper, windows were broken and siding damaged. A nearby potato field was shredded, and a corn field was about 50 percent damaged. Cottonwood trees were blown over, and cut hay was blown away. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Karlsruhe | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Karlsruhe | $15,000 | Large tree branches were broken down throughout the city of Karlsruhe. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Karlsruhe | $13,000 | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Karlsruhe | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Karlsruhe | - | The tornado touched down in an open field west of Karlsruhe and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown). |
| September 2025 | Tornado (EFU) | Karlsruhe | - | The tornado touched down in an open field northwest of Karlsruhe and impacted no structures before it dissipated east of Simcoe. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown). |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Karlsruhe | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Karlsruhe | - | The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Karlsruhe | - | The public reported this brief touchdown of a tornado. There were no reports of damage as this tornado remained in open field. |
| June 2003 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | Reported by a NWS cooperative observer. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Karlsruhe | - | 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 Karlsruhe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1026577 | 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 1029714. 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.



