Kenmare, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Kenmare Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58746. It lies near Ankenbauer Coulee. The Survey maps it on the Kenmare quadrangle. 961 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,890 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresKenmare fell from 1,096 to 961 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 | 1,096 | |
| 2020 | 961 | -135 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1948 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Williston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Kenmare quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Kenmare between 1992 and 2019, burning about 723 acres in total. 1 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 | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | YORK |
| 23 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | BASEBALL FIELD |
| 19 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 8/19/2017 |
| 10 August 2013 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | BURLINGTON 0RTHERN TRACK FIRE |
| 6 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | SCHEOMER |
| 5 July 1994 | Smoking | under an acre | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | UNIT3 |
| 3 July 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | KENMARE |
| 28 July 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | HB-23 WILDFIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kenmare: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siebert Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenmare in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 26 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain. 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 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Kenmare | $150,000 | Crop losses of 20 to 40 percent of 145,200 acres. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenmare | $35,000 | The wind completely destroyed a new airplane hanger at the Kenmare airport. Other damage consisted of several large metal buildings and hopper. Numerous tree limbs down. |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenmare | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenmare | - | A severe thunderstorm wind gust was reported. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Kenmare | - | Heavy rain of one inch in twenty minutes was reported. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Kenmare | - | A public report of 2 inches of heavy rain was relayed by broadcast media. |
| June 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Kenmare | - | A brief funnel cloud formed, but never reached the ground. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Kenmare | - | No damage was reported. |
| July 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Kenmare | - | Tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage reported. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenmare | - | Numerous trees down around town. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Kenmare | - | Several crop fields wiped out by the hail. |
| July 2024 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| September 2004 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Kenmare | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Kenmare | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenaston | 4.2 miles | 7 | |
| Niobe | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Baden | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Nine Mile Corner | 9.1 miles | 7 | |
| Donnybrook | 15.5 miles | 7 | |
| Aurelia | 17.3 miles | 6 | |
| Hartland | 23.5 miles | 7 | |
| Carpio | 25.2 miles | 9 |
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 Kenmare | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2278280 | 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 1029729. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.




