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Knox, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58343. The Survey maps it on the Knox quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Knox within Benson County

Population over time

2 figures

Knox fell from 25 to 22 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
201025
202022-3 (-12%)

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

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Knox between 2015 and 2017, burning about 14 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
Debris and open burning1
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
22 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFOLLMAN FIRE
11 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTOFTE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benson 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 Knox: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Clairmont Const PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Benson County

Storms near this place

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knox in 15 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 10 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
June 2017Tornado (EF2)Knox$200,000This tornado and corresponding rear flank downdraft wind produced widespread dust, which greatly reduced the visibility. Numerous ash, poplar, cottonwood, and evergreen trees were snapped or uprooted in shelterbelts and groves along its path. Peak winds of 119 mph were measured by a mobile system.
June 2019HailKnox-Strong winds and torrential rain accompanied the hail.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindKnox-A few four to six inch diameter tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts across northern Knox Township.
June 2015HailKnox-Pea to nickel sized hail fell.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKnox-Several large tree limbs were broken down and a few tall evergreen trees were snapped around Knox. The grain elevator doors were also blown off.
July 2016HailKnox-no account filed
May 2006HailKnox-no account filed
August 2006HailKnox-no account filed
August 2005HailKnox-no account filed
August 2005HailKnox-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindKnox-no account filed
May 2002HailKnox-no account filed
August 2001HailKnox-no account filed
June 2000Funnel CloudKnox-no account filed
June 2000HailKnox-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benson 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
Pleasant Lake6.1 miles7
York6.5 miles7
Fillmore12.5 miles6
Baker12.6 miles6
Leeds13.9 miles7
Harlow15.2 miles6
Niles18.5 miles6
Isabel19.1 miles6

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 KnoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2169223The 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 1029759. 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.