Aneta, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Aneta City. It lies in ZIP code area 58212. The Survey maps it on the Aneta quadrangle. 234 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,503 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAneta grew from 222 to 234 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 | 222 | |
| 2020 | 234 | +12 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Aneta quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Grand Forks quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Aneta between 2008 and 2019, burning about 709 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 burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SCOTT LARSON PLOT |
| 14 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | DARREN FOUGNER |
| 4 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RETZLAFF |
| 23 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 320 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | RETZLAFF RESEVOUR |
| 23 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MAVIS NAAS CRP |
| 14 November 2015 | Smoking | 20 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | MIKE HANSON |
| 18 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CITY BURN SITE |
| 11 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SYVERSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
37 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aneta in 37 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 17 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Flash Flood | Aneta | $125,000 | Streets, low spots, rivers, and basements were flooded by 4 to 9 inches of rain over a short duration of time. Cars that got stuck in the flood waters were abandoned where they stalled. Farm fields and access roads were also flooded. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Aneta | - | Report of quarter size hail. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Peak gust from a Davis personal weather station. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Several, large 3 to 5-inch diameter tree branches were broken. Winds were estimated to be 60 mph. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Several large cottonwood, ash and spruce trees were snapped or uprooted. Shingles and roof trim was torn from the roofs of several homes. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Peak wind measured at a personal weather station. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | A large pine tree was snapped. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Aneta | - | The hail was mainly quarter sized, but there were some a little larger. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Four to six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Portions of tin roofing were blown off of a county building. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Aneta | - | Pea to golfball sized hail fell, but not quite enough to cover the ground. |
| August 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Aneta | - | The county sheriff reported a funnel cloud just northeast of the intersection of highways 15 and 32. |
| August 2007 | Tornado (EF3) | Aneta | - | This tornado continued into western Grand Forks County, where it dissipated 3 miles west-northwest of Logan Center at 716 pm CST. The total tornado track was about 6 miles long, with about 5 miles of this total occurring in Nelson County. The tornado destroyed a garage and farm outbuildings at 3 farmsteads. It killed 5 buffalo and completely dismantled a swathing combine. Trees were also snapped off or uprooted along the damage path and several empty metal grain bins were torn from their anchors and demolished. Gravel roads were deeply scarred by debris. Peak winds were estimated at 150 mph. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Several large 100 year-old trees were blown down and a quonset was destroyed. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | Large cottonwood trees were uprooted. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Aneta | - | The tornado was near the Nelson-Grand Forks county line. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | The strong wind caused a barn to collapse. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Aneta | - | The tornado was 100 yards wide. |
| July 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Aneta | - | The tornado was 100 yards wide. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Aneta | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Aneta | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kloten | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| McVille | 11.6 miles | 10 | |
| Pekin | 19.6 miles | 11 | |
| Harrisburg (historical) | 21.5 miles | 11 | |
| Petersburg | 22.9 miles | 7 | |
| Michigan | 24.8 miles | 7 | |
| Tolna | 26.0 miles | 11 | |
| Wamduska (historical) | 27.2 miles | 11 |
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 Aneta | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2108194 | 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 1027704. 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.




