Wheaton, Kansas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lone Tree Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66521. The Survey maps it on the Wheaton quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWheaton grew from 95 to 98 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 | 95 | |
| 2020 | 98 | +3 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1889 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Blue Rapids quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Wheaton between 2005 and 2017, burning about 1,866 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Pottawatomie County | 4012 |
| 3 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,800 acres | Kansas Forest Service | LILLIS |
| 17 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Pottawatomie County | 4004 |
| 22 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Pottawatomie County | 4003 |
| 10 November 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 4002 |
| 13 January 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Pottawatomie County | 4001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheaton in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 1993 | Tornado (F1) | Wheaton | $500,000 | The tornado moved through the northern part of the county causing damage at nine different locations. Most damage was to outbuildings and barns although three homes were damaged in Duluth along with numerous utility poles and cable. The tornado had multiple vortices at times. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | $8,000 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Hail | Wheaton | - | Hail up to the size of ping pong balls reported. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Wind gust estimated. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Wind gusts estimated. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | A law enforcement officer reported a 65 mph wind gust. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Wheaton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaine | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Duluth | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Onaga | 8.0 miles | 15 | |
| Westmoreland | 8.9 miles | 17 | |
| Fostoria | 10.8 miles | 20 | |
| Laclede | 11.9 miles | 16 | |
| Havensville | 12.9 miles | 14 | |
| Aikins | 14.3 miles | 16 |
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 Wheaton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q388910 | 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 473427. 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.






