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Wheaton, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wheaton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56296. The Survey maps it on the Wheaton East quadrangle. 1,460 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

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Wheaton within Traverse County

On record in Wheaton

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wheaton grew from 1,424 to 1,460 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
20101,424
20201,460+36 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wheaton: 1 producer. All of them 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
Jacobsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Traverse County

Storms near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheaton in 41 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 27 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWheaton-The public reported both hail to the size of quarters and thunderstorm wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph. The combination of the two resulted in damage to crops as well as the homes roof and siding.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWheaton-One inch tree limbs were broken in Wheaton, Minnesota.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Estimated 80 mph wind gusts uprooted and snapped trees, and blew a roof off of a residence.
June 2022HailWheaton-Nickel hail was observed, with little wind.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Seventy mph winds downed some trees along with some large branches in Wheaton.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Large branches were downed by high winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Large branches were downed by high winds.
June 2005Flash FloodWheaton-Heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches fell in and around the city of Wheaton causing flash flooding. Many roads had water running over them with several of them closed.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Seventy mph winds brought down several trees along with some power lines.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWheaton-Large branches were downed in Wheaton. One branch took down a power line.
July 1994HailWheaton-The combination of large hail and strong winds destroyed over 130,000 acres of crops in Traverse County causing an estimated $20 million damage.
July 2021HailWheaton-no account filed
July 2021HailWheaton-no account filed
July 2021HailWheaton-no account filed
August 2013HailWheaton-no account filed
October 2013Funnel CloudWheaton-no account filed
May 2011HailWheaton-no account filed
May 2011HailWheaton-no account filed
August 2009HailWheaton-no account filed
August 2009HailWheaton-no account filed
August 2007HailWheaton-no account filed
August 2007HailWheaton-no account filed
June 2006HailWheaton-no account filed
July 2006HailWheaton-no account filed
July 2006HailWheaton-no account filed
June 2005HailWheaton-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindWheaton-no account filed
September 2005HailWheaton-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWheaton-no account filed
June 2002HailWheaton-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWheaton-no account filed
August 2001HailWheaton-no account filed
August 2001HailWheaton-no account filed
May 1999HailWheaton-no account filed
May 1999HailWheaton-no account filed
August 1999HailWheaton-no account filed
August 1999HailWheaton-no account filed
July 1998HailWheaton-no account filed
June 1997HailWheaton-no account filed
June 1997HailWheaton-no account filed
October 1996Tornado (F1)Wheaton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Traverse 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
Dumont7.2 miles8
Boisberg8.6 miles13
Dakomin10.7 miles13
Collis11.6 miles8
Charlesville15.8 miles9
Tintah17.0 miles8
Browns Valley22.8 miles13

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 Q2134514The 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 654055. 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.

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.