Stanton, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1968. It stands in Stanton City. It lies in ZIP code area 58571. It stands on Knife River. The Survey maps it on the Stanton quadrangle. 368 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,703 feet above sea level.
On record in Stanton
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 3 records
Big Hidatsa Village SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Fort Clark Archeological Districtlisted 1986- Knife River Bridge near Stantonlisted 2001
Population over time
2 figuresStanton grew from 366 to 368 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 | 366 | |
| 2020 | 368 | +2 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1948 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Stanton between 2005 and 2019, burning about 964 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 17 August 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | DITCH FIRE |
| 14 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | YELLOW BEAR |
| 14 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | CEMETERY |
| 13 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | not named |
| 12 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | PEAFIELD |
| 12 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 acres | Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site | PEAFIELD II |
| 29 July 2015 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | TIM SCHWARTZ |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanton in 38 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $500,000 | Homes were damaged with shingles and siding blown off. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $400,000 | An intense microburst occurred at this location with estimated 130 mph winds. Every building on the property was severely damaged or destroyed. The home suffered severe damage with the roof being torn off and the back wall blown out. Four people were inside the home and sought shelter in the basement, uninjured. Large diameter trees were snapped. Crops were also damaged. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Stanton | $350,000 | Damage to vehicles, roofs, and windows. Five Mercer County Sheriff vehicles damaged. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $300,000 | Numerous large tree branches were broken, and several large tree trunks snapped in the city of Stanton. A few garages had a wall blown out or parts of their roofs torn off. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Stanton | $300,000 | Extensive damage to 40 vehicles and several buildings at the Great River Energy Plant. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $150,000 | A large wooden barn was completely destroyed. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $75,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in extensive tree damage in and around Stanton. Several windows were blown out. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $8,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds blew down 12 inch diameter trees. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stanton | $7,000 | Golfball to baseball size hail was reported. Damage was sustained to multiple skylights and shingles at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. Other damage reports were unavailable. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $5,000 | A trained spotter reported that large tree branches were broken. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $5,000 | Tree 18 inches in diameter knocked over. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | $1,000 | A six inch in diameter tree was blown down in Stanton. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stanton | - | Golfball to tennis ball size hail lasted for nine minutes. No report of damage was received from this event. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stanton | - | The public reported hail up to the size of softballs. No report of damage was received from this event. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Stanton | - | No reports of damage were received. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Stanton | - | Hail up to the size of golf balls and fifty mph winds were reported in Stanton. This was the second wave of severe weather to impact the city of Stanton within one hour Monday evening. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Stanton | - | Hail occurred with 44 knot wind (51 mph). |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Stanton | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Stanton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knife River Village (historical) | 0.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hazen | 12.9 miles | 5 | |
| Pick City | 13.7 miles | 7 | |
| Truax | 14.3 miles | 6 | |
| Beulah | 21.4 miles | 6 | |
| Zap | 28.8 miles | 5 | |
| Golden Valley | 36.3 miles | 7 |
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 Stanton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1001435 | 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 1032286. 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.




