BlockBefore

Wolverton, Minnesota

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wolverton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56594. The Survey maps it on the Wolverton quadrangle. 128 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Wolverton within Wilkin County

On record in Wolverton

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

Wolverton fell from 142 to 128 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
2010142
2020128-14 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 22 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wolverton between 2005 and 2019, burning about 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

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
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
17 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Wilkin County

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 Wolverton: 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
Turner Pitsd MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wilkin County

Storms near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wolverton in 38 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 14 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 flood, 4 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWolverton$50,00010 aluminum transmission structure were blown over by the strong wind.
March 2019FloodWolverton$50,000no account filed
April 2019FloodWolverton$50,000no account filed
June 2013FloodWolverton$10,000Overland flooding developed over portions of Wolverton Township drained by Wolverton Creek. Six to ten inches of very heavy rainfall the preceding evening collected in farm fields, ditches, and smaller streams through the early morning then steadily drained towards Wolverton Creek and the Red River. Wolverton Creek overtopped and partially washed out rural township and county roads at several locations.
June 2009Flash FloodWolverton$10,000Farm access roads and a 140 acre field were flooded. U.S. Highway 75 north of Kent was underwater and remained closed due to damage from earlier spring flooding. Portions of southern Roberts and northern McCauleyville townships along the Whiskey Creek drainage basin received 5 to 7 inches of rain from late afternoon into the late evening of the 16th.
June 2013Flash FloodWolverton$5,000Widespread flooding was reported in and around Wolverton. A total of 8.25 inches of rain was reported in town with over nine inches reported just outside of town to the south.
June 2009FloodWolverton$5,000no account filed
March 2009FloodWolverton$5,000no account filed
April 2009FloodWolverton$5,000no account filed
September 2014Flash FloodWolverton$1,000Several farm access roads and fields were flooded across Wolverton Township.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWolverton$500Large branches were blown down.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWolverton$200Tree limbs were blown down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWolverton-Wind gust measured on NDAWN site Wolverton 2E.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWolverton-Measurement on 10 meter NDAWN sensor.
May 2022Flash FloodWolverton-Residential street and yard flooding reported along Wolverton Creek.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWolverton-Peak wind was measured at an NDAWN station at 10 meters.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWolverton-NDAWN station measured peak wind gust at 10 meters.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindWolverton-NDAWN 10 meter wind report of 77 mph.
August 2020HailWolverton-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindWolverton-Trees were blown down in town.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWolverton-Three to five inch diameter tree branches were felled.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Wolverton-This tornado knocked down several large tree limbs and a few smaller trees in farm shelter belts along its path. peak winds are estimated to 85 mph.
July 2010Funnel CloudWolverton-The funnel cloud was visible for several minutes.
September 2002HailWolverton-The large hail damaged the windows and siding on buildings.
July 2015HailWolverton-no account filed
April 2011FloodWolverton-no account filed
March 2010FloodWolverton-no account filed
July 2008HailWolverton-no account filed
May 2005HailWolverton-no account filed
May 2004HailWolverton-no account filed
September 2003HailWolverton-no account filed
June 2002HailWolverton-no account filed
September 2002HailWolverton-no account filed
June 2001HailWolverton-no account filed
June 2001HailWolverton-no account filed
June 2001HailWolverton-no account filed
August 2001HailWolverton-no account filed
July 1998HailWolverton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilkin 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
McCauleyville8.5 miles9
Kent9.1 miles9
Brushvale14.2 miles11
Lawndale19.8 miles9
Breckenridge22.1 miles11
Rothsay24.8 miles11
Everdell26.7 miles11
Doran29.4 miles8

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 WolvertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2227781The 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 654328. 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.