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Wilton, Minnesota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Wilton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56601. The Survey maps it on the Wilton quadrangle. 263 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.

Wilton within Beltrami County

Population over time

2 figures

Wilton grew from 204 to 263 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
2010204
2020263+59 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Wilton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 962 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 were 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 burning116
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wilton: 2 producers. 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
Opsahl Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snyker MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindWilton$500Trees were blown down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWilton-Several trees were blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWilton-Trees were blown down and a wooden sign was snapped.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWilton-A tree was blown onto Archery Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWilton-Numerous large tree branches were blown down across southern Eckles Township.
July 2017HailWilton-Nickel to quarter sized hail fell between Wilton and Bemidji.
May 2016HailWilton-Numerous dime to quarter sized hail covered the ground.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWilton-Mature trees were blown down, causing power outages.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWilton-2 inch diameter tree branches were snapped off.
August 2020HailWilton-no account filed
May 2006HailWilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami 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
Scribner2.2 miles11
Secluded Acres6.4 miles10
Bemidji6.7 miles9
Solway6.9 miles11
Birchmont8.0 miles11
Werner8.8 miles10
Woodland Park9.1 miles11
Pinewood9.3 miles11

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 WiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2181721The 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 654239. 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.