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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.

Aneta within Nelson County

Population over time

2 figures

Aneta 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.

YearPeople Change
2010222
2020234+12 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

8 since 2008

Regional 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 burning6
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 May 2019Debris and open burning50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSCOTT LARSON PLOT
14 May 2018Debris and open burning10 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDARREN FOUGNER
4 April 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRETZLAFF
23 April 2018Debris and open burning320 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceRETZLAFF RESEVOUR
23 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMAVIS NAAS CRP
14 November 2015Smoking20 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceMIKE HANSON
18 October 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCITY BURN SITE
11 October 2015Debris and open burning6.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSYVERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this place

37 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2019Flash FloodAneta$125,000Streets, 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 2025HailAneta-Report of quarter size hail.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAneta-Peak gust from a Davis personal weather station.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindAneta-Several, large 3 to 5-inch diameter tree branches were broken. Winds were estimated to be 60 mph.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAneta-Several large cottonwood, ash and spruce trees were snapped or uprooted. Shingles and roof trim was torn from the roofs of several homes.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAneta-Peak wind measured at a personal weather station.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindAneta-A large pine tree was snapped.
July 2019HailAneta-The hail was mainly quarter sized, but there were some a little larger.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindAneta-Four to six inch diameter tree limbs were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAneta-Portions of tin roofing were blown off of a county building.
July 2007HailAneta-Pea to golfball sized hail fell, but not quite enough to cover the ground.
August 2007Funnel CloudAneta-The county sheriff reported a funnel cloud just northeast of the intersection of highways 15 and 32.
August 2007Tornado (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 2005Thunderstorm WindAneta-Several large 100 year-old trees were blown down and a quonset was destroyed.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindAneta-Large cottonwood trees were uprooted.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Aneta-The tornado was near the Nelson-Grand Forks county line.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindAneta-The strong wind caused a barn to collapse.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Aneta-The tornado was 100 yards wide.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Aneta-The tornado was 100 yards wide.
July 2008HailAneta-no account filed
July 2008HailAneta-no account filed
May 2005HailAneta-no account filed
May 2004HailAneta-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAneta-no account filed
June 2000HailAneta-no account filed
June 2000HailAneta-no account filed
June 2000HailAneta-no account filed
June 2000HailAneta-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindAneta-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindAneta-no account filed
June 2000HailAneta-no account filed
June 2000HailAneta-no account filed
May 2000HailAneta-no account filed
May 2000HailAneta-no account filed
June 2000Flash FloodAneta-no account filed
June 1997HailAneta-no account filed
June 1997HailAneta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Kloten5.3 miles8
McVille11.6 miles10
Pekin19.6 miles11
Harrisburg (historical)21.5 miles11
Petersburg22.9 miles7
Michigan24.8 miles7
Tolna26.0 miles11
Wamduska (historical)27.2 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 AnetaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2108194The 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.