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Munich, North Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Munich City. It lies in ZIP code area 58352. The Survey maps it on the Munich quadrangle. 190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,598 feet above sea level.

Munich within Cavalier County

Population over time

2 figures

Munich fell from 210 to 190 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
2010210
2020190-20 (-10%)

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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Munich between 1999 and 2020, burning about 3,062 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 September 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictBRUDEVIG
19 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictWENGELER
22 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCLYDE FIRE
22 May 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceEUGENE GOESER
2 May 2020Debris and open burning21 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictWENGLER
10 March 2016Other causesunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCLYDE MEYERS
2 December 2002Arson/incendiarism150 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictBRUDEVIG
6 November 2014Debris and open burning96 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictBRUDEVIG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cavalier County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Munich in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMunich$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down, cutting power in Munich for 5 hours. A large door was torn off the Munich elevator, which damaged 3 grain bins.
July 2020HailMunich-Multiple rounds of hail tracked across southern Trier Township. Nickel to quarter sized hail fell near Munich.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMunich-Numerous large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts across Trier and Seivert townships.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMunich-Sixteen inch diameter trees were snapped. It may have been accompanied by a funnel cloud, but it was rain wrapped and hard to see.
August 2010Tornado (EF1)Munich-This tornado began in Towner County at 820 pm CDT. The tornado tracked for about 20 miles total, about 10 miles in Towner County and then about 10 miles in Cavalier County. During much of this track the tornado was likely enveloped in heavy rains and strong downburst winds with the funnel briefly visible at times. The tornado broke down two wooden power poles and numerous trees and tree limbs along its route. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMunich-Two foot diameter trees were uprooted.
June 2005Flash FloodMunich-Water covered highway 20 at the Ramsey-Cavalier county line.
July 2000Flash FloodMunich-Five inches of rain fell in a short period of time, causing flooding problems in Munich.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMunich-Wind speed was estimated.
July 2020HailMunich-no account filed
June 2018HailMunich-no account filed
July 2011HailMunich-no account filed
April 2005HailMunich-no account filed
September 2005HailMunich-no account filed
April 2004HailMunich-no account filed
June 2002HailMunich-no account filed
June 2001HailMunich-no account filed
August 1994HailMunich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cavalier 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
Calio5.9 miles7
Alsen7.3 miles7
Clyde7.8 miles7
Weaver7.9 miles8
Calvin13.8 miles7
Loma16.1 miles7
Wales19.8 miles7
Sarles21.0 miles7

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 MunichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1300313The 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 1030338. 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.