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Hatton, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Garfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58240. The Survey maps it on the Hatton quadrangle. 712 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Hatton within Traill County

On record in Hatton

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

Hatton fell from 777 to 712 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
2010777
2020712-65 (-8%)

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.

Storms near this place

34 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatton in 34 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 13 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 4 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHatton$30,000The wind knocked down many large tree branches.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHatton$20,000A fifteen inch diameter tree was blown down by the wind gust.
March 2009FloodHatton$5,000no account filed
April 2009FloodHatton$5,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindHatton$500Branches were blown down.
August 2025Tornado (EF1)Hatton-This tornado developed about 2.8 miles east of Hatton and tracked northeast. It damaged a farmstead where the garage door of large shed was torn off, a tree was uprooted, and numerous large branches were broken. Numerous large tree branches snapped and uprooted along path as it tracked northeast crossed multiple shelterbelts. Time estimated from KVX radar. TDS observed on radar. Sentinel-2 high resolution satellite imagery reveals crop damage along the path. Maximum wind speed is estimated at 104 mph based on the tree damage.
June 2021HailHatton-A report of 1-inch hail was received via social media.
June 2021HailHatton-This corrects the previous hail report from Hatton. Quarter-sized hail in Hatton was reported via social media.
June 2021HailHatton-Reported by local broadcast media.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindHatton-Received a public report of a 60 to 70 mph wind gust.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindHatton-Large branches were blown down and one large spruce tree was snapped in shelterbelts across southern Garfield Township.
September 2019HailHatton-Very strong winds accompanied the hail.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHatton-A large tree was toppled, narrowly missing a house. A power pole was also snapped.
June 2017Tornado (EF0)Hatton-This tornado began in Steele County, about two miles west-southwest of Hatton at 1159 am CST. This tornado was viewed by the Grand Forks Air Traffic Control Tower for nearly 11 minutes, and was initially estimated as being 7 miles southwest of the Grand Forks airport. The tornado had a dramatic dust swirl which was captured on video and photos. Some ground scarring was evident, otherwise no damage was detected. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.
July 2017HailHatton-Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHatton-Widespread tree damage occurred throughout Newburgh and Garfield townships in northeast Steele County. At one homestead north of Hatton, several poplar trees were snapped and a patio cover was torn off a house and demolished. Tree damage continued into adjacent townships in Grand Forks and Traill counties.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHatton-Tree damage was reported. Some of the branches took down power lines as they fell.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindHatton-Several large tree branches were knocked down in a shelterbelt. Portions of a ripe bean field were flattened.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHatton-Large branches were blown down.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Hatton-Intermittent touchdowns occurred in northwest Traill county, from the Steele county line northwest of Hatton to the Grand Forks county line northeast of Hatton.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHatton-Trees were blown down.
July 2004Tornado (F0)Hatton-The tornado tracked about a mile and damaged several trees.
August 2019HailHatton-no account filed
July 2017HailHatton-no account filed
July 2016HailHatton-no account filed
July 2015Funnel CloudHatton-no account filed
July 2013HailHatton-no account filed
April 2011FloodHatton-no account filed
March 2010FloodHatton-no account filed
August 2007HailHatton-no account filed
August 2006HailHatton-no account filed
August 2006HailHatton-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindHatton-no account filed
June 2001HailHatton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Traill 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
Portland Junction7.0 miles8
Portland10.7 miles9
Mayville11.9 miles9
Roseville14.2 miles8
Murray17.5 miles9
Reynolds18.5 miles8
Buxton19.1 miles8
Clifford20.3 miles9

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 HattonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2286940The 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 1029336. 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.

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.