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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.

Kenmare within Ward County

Population over time

2 figures

Kenmare 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,096
2020961-135 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

54 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use5
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresDes Lacs National Wildlife RefugeYORK
23 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBASEBALL FIELD
19 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service8/19/2017
10 August 2013Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBURLINGTON 0RTHERN TRACK FIRE
6 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDes Lacs National Wildlife RefugeSCHEOMER
5 July 1994Smokingunder an acreDes Lacs National Wildlife RefugeUNIT3
3 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDes Lacs National Wildlife RefugeKENMARE
28 July 2015Naturalunder an acreDes Lacs National Wildlife RefugeHB-23 WILDFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ward County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Siebert PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Ward County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1999Tornado (F1)Kenmare$150,000Crop losses of 20 to 40 percent of 145,200 acres.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindKenmare$35,000The 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 1994Thunderstorm WindKenmare$30,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindKenmare-A severe thunderstorm wind gust was reported.
June 2011Heavy RainKenmare-Heavy rain of one inch in twenty minutes was reported.
June 2011Heavy RainKenmare-A public report of 2 inches of heavy rain was relayed by broadcast media.
June 2010Funnel CloudKenmare-A brief funnel cloud formed, but never reached the ground.
June 2007HailKenmare-No damage was reported.
July 2005Tornado (F0)Kenmare-Tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage reported.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindKenmare-Numerous trees down around town.
August 2002HailKenmare-Several crop fields wiped out by the hail.
July 2024HailKenmare-no account filed
June 2021HailKenmare-no account filed
June 2020HailKenmare-no account filed
June 2018HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2016HailKenmare-no account filed
May 2010HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2010HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2010HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2010HailKenmare-no account filed
June 2004HailKenmare-no account filed
June 2004HailKenmare-no account filed
June 2004HailKenmare-no account filed
September 2004HailKenmare-no account filed
September 2004HailKenmare-no account filed
August 2003HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2003HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2003HailKenmare-no account filed
August 2002HailKenmare-no account filed
August 2002HailKenmare-no account filed
August 2002HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2001HailKenmare-no account filed
July 2001HailKenmare-no account filed
July 1999HailKenmare-no account filed
July 1998HailKenmare-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ward 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
Kenaston4.2 miles7
Niobe7.1 miles8
Baden7.3 miles7
Nine Mile Corner9.1 miles7
Donnybrook15.5 miles7
Aurelia17.3 miles6
Hartland23.5 miles7
Carpio25.2 miles9

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 KenmareAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2278280The 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.