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.
Population over time
2 figuresStarkweather 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 117 | |
| 2020 | 100 | -17 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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
- 1962 USGS Starkweather quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Starkweather quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 33 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | KNEELING MOOSE WPA |
| 5 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PINTAILWF |
| 26 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | BABCOCK |
| 22 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RAMSEY COUNTY LINE |
| 12 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 144 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | HALL |
| 9 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | PINTAIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Flood | Starkweather | $50,000 | Heavy rain caused basement flooding in Starkweather. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | $1,000 | A mailbox was blown down. |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | $200 | Tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Starkweather | - | Quarter to half-dollar sized hail lasted for a few minutes. |
| July 2013 | Tornado (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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | Strong winds blew down small branches and uprooted one tree. Hail damage to crops was also reported. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | Three inch diameter branches were blown down. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | 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 2012 | Hail | Starkweather | - | 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 2005 | Flash Flood | Starkweather | - | Water covered highway 20 at the Ramsey-Cavalier county line. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | Numerous large trees were blown down. A garage was torn off its foundation and destroyed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | Many trees were blown down, some 4 to 5 feet in circumference. Several tree tops were twisted off. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | 12 to 15 inch diameter trees were uprooted by the strong wind. |
| August 2010 | Hail | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Starkweather | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Starkweather | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Joe | 4.8 miles | 7 | |
| Garske | 6.5 miles | 8 | |
| Webster | 11.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hampden | 13.6 miles | 8 | |
| Sweetwater | 16.3 miles | 14 | |
| Derrick | 17.4 miles | 7 | |
| Penn | 19.3 miles | 10 | |
| Grand Harbor | 20.2 miles | 14 |
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 Starkweather | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2248291 | 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 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.





