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Kramer, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Stone Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58748. The Survey maps it on the Kramer quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,457 feet above sea level.

Kramer within Bottineau County

Population over time

2 figures

Kramer fell from 29 to 24 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
201029
202024-5 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Kramer between 2005 and 2020, burning about 21 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 2020Natural14 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugePOOL 332
6 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugeCCC BAILER
30 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresJ. Clark Salyer National Wildlife RefugeNERMOE

Every fire recorded in Bottineau County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kramer in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 1997Tornado (F0)Kramer$10,000brief tornado touchdown 6 NW of Kramer. a few power poles and trees were snapped.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindKramer-The public estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindKramer-The strong thunderstorm winds combined with small hail to strip a nearby corn field down to its stalks.
June 2023HailKramer-no account filed
June 2023HailKramer-no account filed
June 2018HailKramer-no account filed
June 2018HailKramer-no account filed
July 2017HailKramer-no account filed
July 2017HailKramer-no account filed
July 2017HailKramer-no account filed
July 2016HailKramer-no account filed
June 2011HailKramer-no account filed
April 2010HailKramer-no account filed
June 2008HailKramer-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindKramer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bottineau 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
White4.4 miles6
Russell10.4 miles6
Newburg11.1 miles6
Gardena11.1 miles7
Souris15.2 miles6
Roth15.8 miles7
Carbury16.3 miles6
Bottineau16.7 miles8

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 KramerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2483291The 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 1029774. 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.