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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.

Nekoma within Cavalier County

Population over time

2 figures

Nekoma 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.

YearPeople Change
201050
202031-19 (-38%)

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

8 since 1996

Regional 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/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 June 2019Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE BY HECKS
3 May 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictHOWITZ WPA
23 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFILIP FIRE
24 April 2006Arson/incendiarism24 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictSUNDERLAND
8 December 1999Debris and open burning24 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictROPPEL
26 October 1999Arson/incendiarism160 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictHORWITZ 2
25 October 1999Arson/incendiarism140 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictHOWITZ
18 October 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceNEKOMA

Every fire recorded in Cavalier County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNekoma$5,000A grain bin and several 6 inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNekoma$500Large branches were blown down.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindNekoma-Several large tree branches were blown down in a shelterbelt.
June 2012HailNekoma-Pea to dime sized hail fell.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNekoma-Trees were blown down onto powerlines, resulting in power outages.
August 2006HailNekoma-Golfball sized hail covered the ground.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNekoma-A grain elevator complex was damaged. Metal bins were also dented in.
May 1998HailNekoma-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 2016HailNekoma-no account filed
June 2006HailNekoma-no account filed
August 2006HailNekoma-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNekoma-no account filed
July 2003HailNekoma-no account filed
July 1999HailNekoma-no account filed
July 1999HailNekoma-no account filed
May 1998HailNekoma-no account filed
May 1998HailNekoma-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
Loma9.4 miles7
Easby11.1 miles7
Langdon12.6 miles8
Osnabrock13.2 miles7
Milton17.7 miles7
Alsen18.1 miles7
Dresden18.2 miles8
Weaver18.8 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 NekomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q520507The 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.