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Starkweather, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Starkweather City. It lies in ZIP code area 58377. The Survey maps it on the Starkweather quadrangle. 100 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,496 feet above sea level.

Starkweather within Ramsey County

Population over time

2 figures

Starkweather fell from 117 to 100 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
2010117
2020100-17 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Starkweather between 1999 and 2019, burning about 210 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
15 September 2012Debris and open burning33 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictKNEELING MOOSE WPA
5 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPINTAILWF
26 May 2017Debris and open burning9.0 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictBABCOCK
22 May 2019Debris and open burning20 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRAMSEY COUNTY LINE
12 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined144 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictHALL
9 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresDevil's Lake Wetland Management DistrictPINTAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ramsey County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starkweather in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 15 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
June 1998FloodStarkweather$50,000Heavy rain caused basement flooding in Starkweather.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStarkweather$1,000A mailbox was blown down.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindStarkweather$1,000no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindStarkweather$200Tree branches were blown down.
August 2021HailStarkweather-Quarter to half-dollar sized hail lasted for a few minutes.
July 2013Tornado (EF1)Starkweather-The tornado snapped about six wooden power poles along county road 17 before it dissipated. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-Strong winds blew down small branches and uprooted one tree. Hail damage to crops was also reported.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-Three inch diameter branches were blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-Several large trees, up to two feet in diameter, were broken down. Widespread tree and roof damage was reported in town, with sheet metal roofing and shingles blown about.
July 2012HailStarkweather-Lots of pea to penny sized hail fell from northeast Hammer Township into Sullivan Township, and where driven by very strong winds, produced widespread crop damage.
June 2005Flash FloodStarkweather-Water covered highway 20 at the Ramsey-Cavalier county line.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-Many large trees were blown down or uprooted. Trees fell on homes and vehicles. A brick building in town was also damaged. A grain bin at the elevator was punctured, spilling grain on the ground.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-An observer reported 85 mph winds before the power went out. 100 feet of a quonset shed was damaged. Trees were snapped 20 feet off the ground. Six bins, a steel shed, a single garage, a 3-car garage, and a chicken house were also damaged.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-Numerous large trees were blown down. A garage was torn off its foundation and destroyed.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-Many trees were blown down, some 4 to 5 feet in circumference. Several tree tops were twisted off.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-Large branches were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-12 to 15 inch diameter trees were uprooted by the strong wind.
August 2010HailStarkweather-no account filed
August 2010HailStarkweather-no account filed
July 2007HailStarkweather-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-no account filed
September 2005HailStarkweather-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-no account filed
May 2004HailStarkweather-no account filed
July 2003HailStarkweather-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindStarkweather-no account filed
August 2001HailStarkweather-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ramsey 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
Saint Joe4.8 miles7
Garske6.5 miles8
Webster11.7 miles8
Hampden13.6 miles8
Sweetwater16.3 miles14
Derrick17.4 miles7
Penn19.3 miles10
Grand Harbor20.2 miles14

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 StarkweatherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2248291The 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 1032289. 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.