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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.

Mapleton within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Mapleton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010762
20201,320+558 (+73%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

14 since 2015

Regional 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking2

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 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFARM FEILD CONTROLLED BURN
30 July 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service71015
3 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
1 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
7 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service05/07/2019 GRASS FIRE
15 May 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service05-15-2019-01
14 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

20 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMapleton$15,000The 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 1999Thunderstorm WindMapleton$10,000A Burlington Northern-Santa Fe trailer train was toppled by the wind.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMapleton$10,000Many trees were downed around Mapleton and there were power outages. Two semi trucks were also overturned.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindMapleton$5,000Power lines were blown down.
July 2023HailMapleton-Spotter reports quarter to half dollar sized hail with 2-inch stones mixed in.
July 2023HailMapleton-Public reports 2 inch diameter hail in Mapleton.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMapleton-Large tree branches were blown down.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindMapleton-A 5 inch diameter tree was snapped off.
July 2000Flash FloodMapleton-Water was reported over Interstate 94 at the Mapleton exit, after 2 inches of rain fell over a short period of time.
September 2019HailMapleton-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMapleton-no account filed
June 2006HailMapleton-no account filed
August 2006HailMapleton-no account filed
September 2002HailMapleton-no account filed
August 2002HailMapleton-no account filed
June 1998HailMapleton-no account filed
August 1997HailMapleton-no account filed
August 1997HailMapleton-no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMapleton-no account filed
June 1996HailMapleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Fife4.7 miles24
Prosper5.4 miles13
Newman7.5 miles13
Durbin7.6 miles11
Riverside8.1 miles24
West Fargo8.1 miles24
South West Fargo8.1 miles24
Pinkham8.2 miles24

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 MapletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447178The 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.