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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.

Wheaton within Pottawatomie County

Population over time

2 figures

Wheaton 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.

YearPeople Change
201095
202098+3 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 2005

Regional 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
23 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePottawatomie County4012
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,800 acresKansas Forest ServiceLILLIS
17 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresPottawatomie County4004
22 February 2017Debris and open burning60 acresPottawatomie County4003
10 November 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service4002
13 January 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresPottawatomie County4001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pottawatomie County

Storms near this place

11 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993Tornado (F1)Wheaton$500,000The 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 1998Thunderstorm WindWheaton$8,000no account filed
September 2023HailWheaton-Hail up to the size of ping pong balls reported.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Wind gust estimated.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Wind gusts estimated.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWheaton-A law enforcement officer reported a 65 mph wind gust.
May 2016HailWheaton-no account filed
June 2011HailWheaton-no account filed
March 2009HailWheaton-no account filed
March 2009HailWheaton-no account filed
April 2005HailWheaton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pottawatomie 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
Blaine4.4 miles17
Duluth5.4 miles14
Onaga8.0 miles15
Westmoreland8.9 miles17
Fostoria10.8 miles20
Laclede11.9 miles16
Havensville12.9 miles14
Aikins14.3 miles16

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 WheatonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q388910The 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.