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Mooreton, North Dakota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mooreton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58061. The Survey maps it on the Mooreton West quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Mooreton within Richland County

On record in Mooreton

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Mooreton fell from 197 to 177 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
2010197
2020177-20 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Mooreton between 2016 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
4 August 2016Natural1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceBREUER FIRE
27 April 2020Debris and open burning15 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSTANDING CORN FIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richland County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooreton in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindMooreton$225,000A mule barn under construction was blown down at the Bagg bonanza farm.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMooreton$100,000Numerous large tree limbs were broken down and some shingles were torn off homes in Mooreton. Widespread wind damage was evident throughout Barney and Mooreton townships.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMooreton-Report from a NDAWN mesonet site.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMooreton-Several 4 to 8-inch tree branches were broken around town.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMooreton-Peak wind gust was measured at an NDAWN station at the 10-meter height.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindMooreton-A 70 mph wind gust was measured by the NDAWN station in Mooreton at the 10-meter height.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMooreton-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMooreton-The wind gust was measured by a NDAWN mesonet sensor on a 10 meter tall tower.
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Mooreton-A tornado developed over Mooreton and tracked eastward for about seven miles, then dissipated about two miles south-southeast of Dwight. The tornado flung bleachers through the chain-link backdrop of the Mooreton baseball field. The tornado and accompanying downburst winds produced widespread damage to trees, roofing materials, siding, and trim near Mooreton. Peak winds were estimated at about 90 mph.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Mooreton-A weak tornado tracked intermittently to the southeast for about 5 miles. A few large trees were toppled along the path. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 70 mph.
August 2006Funnel CloudMooreton-A well developed funnel cloud was observed from Interstate 29.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMooreton-A weigh station near Mooreton measured the wind gust along Interstate 29.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMooreton-A 65 mph wind gust was measured at the Mooreton Weigh Station.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMooreton-A 79 mph wind gust was measured at the Mooreton Weigh Station.
May 2016HailMooreton-no account filed
June 2015HailMooreton-no account filed
June 2012HailMooreton-no account filed
June 2005HailMooreton-no account filed
July 2001HailMooreton-no account filed
July 2001HailMooreton-no account filed
July 2001HailMooreton-no account filed
July 2001HailMooreton-no account filed
August 1999HailMooreton-no account filed
August 1997HailMooreton-no account filed
August 1997HailMooreton-no account filed
July 1994HailMooreton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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
Fairview Junction2.8 miles10
Barney6.6 miles9
Farmington6.6 miles10
Bayne7.5 miles10
Dwight7.7 miles11
Great Bend8.8 miles10
Mantador8.9 miles10
Galchutt8.9 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 MooretonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2429480The 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 1030281. 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.