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.
Population over time
2 figuresMunich 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 210 | |
| 2020 | 190 | -20 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Munich quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
14 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | BRUDEVIG |
| 19 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | WENGELER |
| 22 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | CLYDE FIRE |
| 22 May 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | EUGENE GOESER |
| 2 May 2020 | Debris and open burning | 21 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | WENGLER |
| 10 March 2016 | Other causes | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | CLYDE MEYERS |
| 2 December 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 150 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | BRUDEVIG |
| 6 November 2014 | Debris and open burning | 96 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | BRUDEVIG |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munich | $15,000 | Trees 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 2020 | Hail | Munich | - | Multiple rounds of hail tracked across southern Trier Township. Nickel to quarter sized hail fell near Munich. |
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munich | - | Numerous large tree branches were blown down in shelterbelts across Trier and Seivert townships. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munich | - | 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 2010 | Tornado (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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munich | - | Two foot diameter trees were uprooted. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Munich | - | Water covered highway 20 at the Ramsey-Cavalier county line. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Munich | - | Five inches of rain fell in a short period of time, causing flooding problems in Munich. |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Munich | - | Wind speed was estimated. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Hail | Munich | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Munich | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1300313 | 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 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.



