Kulm, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Norden Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58456. The Survey maps it on the Kulm quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,972 feet above sea level.

Kulm within LaMoure County

Population over time

2 figures

Kulm grew from 354 to 368 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	354
2020	368	+14 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1896 USGS Edgeley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1925 USGS Edgeley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Jamestown quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Kulm quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS La Moure quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Kulm between 1993 and 2019, burning about 422 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 burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Fireworks	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
3 July 2016	Fireworks	2.0 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	PETE SPERLE
11 June 2019	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Kulm Wetlands Management District	PATZNER
14 May 1993	Debris and open burning	44 acres	Kulm Wetlands Management District	WILD 9301
22 April 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	360 acres	North Dakota State Forest Service	SHARP PRUITZ
7 November 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kulm Wetlands Management District	GACKLE WPA WILDFIRE
30 November 2017	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Kulm Wetlands Management District	LIECHTY

Every fire recorded in LaMoure County

Storms near this place

1 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kulm in 1 storm report in 1993: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Kulm	$50,000	A hail storm leveled crops in a 40-mile-long and two-mile-wide stretch of LaMoure County. The damage extended from the southwest corner of the county, in the Kulm area, to north of Edgeley. The hail also broke windows and damaged roofs. More than 2.75 inches of rain fell with the hail. The wind speed in the Kulm area reached 100 mph for a brief time.

Every storm recorded in LaMoure 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saint George (historical)	12.4 miles	11
Deisem	12.8 miles	11
Edgeley	12.9 miles	11
Jud	15.7 miles	10
Medberry	18.1 miles	11
Willowbank Colony	20.0 miles	11
Nortonville	20.9 miles	10
Alfred	21.0 miles	10

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 Kulm	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2125036	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 1033648. 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.