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.
Research this city
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
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Depotlisted 1985
Larson's Hunters Resortlisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresWheaton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,424 | |
| 2020 | 1,460 | +36 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Wheaton East quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wheaton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacobsen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
41 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | One inch tree limbs were broken in Wheaton, Minnesota. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Estimated 80 mph wind gusts uprooted and snapped trees, and blew a roof off of a residence. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wheaton | - | Nickel hail was observed, with little wind. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Seventy mph winds downed some trees along with some large branches in Wheaton. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Large branches were downed by high winds. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Large branches were downed by high winds. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Wheaton | - | 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Seventy mph winds brought down several trees along with some power lines. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | Large branches were downed in Wheaton. One branch took down a power line. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Wheaton | - | 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 2021 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Wheaton | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Tornado (F1) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dumont | 7.2 miles | 8 | |
| Boisberg | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Dakomin | 10.7 miles | 13 | |
| Collis | 11.6 miles | 8 | |
| Charlesville | 15.8 miles | 9 | |
| Tintah | 17.0 miles | 8 | |
| Browns Valley | 22.8 miles | 13 |
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 Q2134514 | 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 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.




