Nekoma, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Nekoma Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58355. The Survey maps it on the Nekoma quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,631 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNekoma fell from 50 to 31 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 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 31 | -19 (-38%) |
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
- 1972 USGS Nekoma quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Nekoma between 1996 and 2019, burning about 372 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2019 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 8.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE BY HECKS |
| 3 May 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HOWITZ WPA |
| 23 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FILIP FIRE |
| 24 April 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 24 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | SUNDERLAND |
| 8 December 1999 | Debris and open burning | 24 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | ROPPEL |
| 26 October 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 160 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HORWITZ 2 |
| 25 October 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 140 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HOWITZ |
| 18 October 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | NEKOMA |
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nekoma in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 11 hail, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoma | $5,000 | A grain bin and several 6 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoma | $500 | Large branches were blown down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoma | - | Several large tree branches were blown down in a shelterbelt. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Nekoma | - | Pea to dime sized hail fell. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoma | - | Trees were blown down onto powerlines, resulting in power outages. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Nekoma | - | Golfball sized hail covered the ground. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoma | - | A grain elevator complex was damaged. Metal bins were also dented in. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Nekoma | - | Hail drifts up to 3 feet were reported. A car got stuck in the deep hail and had to be towed out. Trees were stripped of leaves and buildings and vehicles sustained damage. Hail remained in shady areas through the next day. |
| September 2016 | Hail | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Nekoma | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Nekoma | - | 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 Nekoma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q520507 | 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 1030368. 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.



