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Wahpeton, Iowa

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Lakeville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51351. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle. 345 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,398 feet above sea level.

Wahpeton within Dickinson County

On record in Wahpeton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Wahpeton grew from 341 to 345 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
2010341
2020345+4 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

23 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Wahpeton between 2006 and 2017, burning about 370 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 July 2012Debris and open burning8.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesA34, 2235 193RD AVE., OKOBOJI TWP, BY LITTLE SIOUX
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources25271 182ND ST., CENTER GROVE TWP, SPIRIT LAKE, IA
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources2305 225TH ST., MILFORD TWP, MILFORD, IA, IA
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
28 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresIowa Wetland Management DistrictMOLLENDORP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dickinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Wahpeton: 23 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BradburySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dickinson County PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leith PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Milford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Milford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Milford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Neppel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rohlin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dickinson County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wahpeton in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindWahpeton$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindWahpeton$20,000Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWahpeton$10,000Winds caused roof damage to a small barn.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindWahpeton$5,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindWahpeton$1,000Thunderstorm winds bent over a power pole and flattened a corn crop. The amount of crop damage was not known.
May 2024HailWahpeton-A few quarter-sized hailstones fell.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindWahpeton-Thunderstorm wind gusts uprooted a 4 foot diameter cottonwood tree.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindWahpeton-Large branches, up to 3 inches in diameter, were snapped from trees.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindWahpeton-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including large branches and a few trees down.
June 2001HailWahpeton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dickinson 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
Crescent Beach Resort0.1 miles8
West Okoboji1.0 miles8
Manhattan Beach Resort1.7 miles8
Okoboji1.9 miles8
Egralharve2.5 miles8
Arnolds Park2.6 miles7
Crows Nest Resort2.6 miles7
Village East Resort2.7 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 WahpetonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1911083The 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 462602. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.