Mapleton, North Dakota
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mapleton City. It lies in ZIP code area 58059. The Survey maps it on the Mapleton quadrangle. 1,320 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 906 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMapleton grew from 762 to 1,320 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 | 762 | |
| 2020 | 1,320 | +558 (+73%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mapleton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Mapleton between 2015 and 2020, burning about 9 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 | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | FARM FEILD CONTROLLED BURN |
| 30 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 10 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 71015 |
| 3 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 1 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 7 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 05/07/2019 GRASS FIRE |
| 15 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 05-15-2019-01 |
| 14 May 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mapleton in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $15,000 | The wind rolled a pickup and a horse trailer off highway 18. One of the four occupants inside suffered minor glass cuts climbing out of the pickup. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $10,000 | A Burlington Northern-Santa Fe trailer train was toppled by the wind. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $10,000 | Many trees were downed around Mapleton and there were power outages. Two semi trucks were also overturned. |
| October 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | $5,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Spotter reports quarter to half dollar sized hail with 2-inch stones mixed in. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Mapleton | - | Public reports 2 inch diameter hail in Mapleton. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | Large tree branches were blown down. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | A 5 inch diameter tree was snapped off. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Mapleton | - | Water was reported over Interstate 94 at the Mapleton exit, after 2 inches of rain fell over a short period of time. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mapleton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Mapleton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fife | 4.7 miles | 24 | |
| Prosper | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Newman | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Durbin | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Riverside | 8.1 miles | 24 | |
| West Fargo | 8.1 miles | 24 | |
| South West Fargo | 8.1 miles | 24 | |
| Pinkham | 8.2 miles | 24 |
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 Mapleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2447178 | 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 1030095. 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.






