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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.

Karlsruhe within McHenry County

Population over time

2 figures

Karlsruhe 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.

YearPeople Change
201082
202087+5 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

10 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
5 August 2015Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKELLER CRP BNRAIL
4 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
2 August 2015Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD
16 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceNO NAME
16 April 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePUIS BLACK
14 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDENNIS BOSSART
12 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKENNY GEFROH
12 March 2016Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURLINGTON NORTHERN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McHenry County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKarlsruhe$100,000Thunderstorm 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 1994Thunderstorm WindKarlsruhe$50,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKarlsruhe$15,000Large tree branches were broken down throughout the city of Karlsruhe.
June 2005Flash FloodKarlsruhe$13,000no account filed
August 1994HailKarlsruhe$10,000no account filed
September 2025Tornado (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 2025Tornado (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 2022Thunderstorm WindKarlsruhe-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by a trained spotter.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindKarlsruhe-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph.
August 2008Tornado (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 2003HailKarlsruhe-Reported by a NWS cooperative observer.
June 2025HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
June 2025HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
June 2025HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
June 2025HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
June 2025HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
June 2025HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindKarlsruhe-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKarlsruhe-no account filed
July 2021HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
July 2021HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
August 2013HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
July 2010HailKarlsruhe-no account filed
July 2010HailKarlsruhe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McHenry 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
Verendrye6.6 miles6
Rangeley7.6 miles6
Bergen7.9 miles6
Balfour10.6 miles8
Voltaire12.7 miles16
Simcoe13.8 miles8
Guthrie14.3 miles6
Riga14.8 miles7

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 KarlsruheAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1026577The 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.