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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.

Stanton within Mercer County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Stanton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010366
2020368+2 (+1%)

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.

Fires near this place

24 since 2005

Regional 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
31 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceDITCH FIRE
14 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresKnife River Indian Villages National Historic SiteYELLOW BEAR
14 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKnife River Indian Villages National Historic SiteCEMETERY
13 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Servicenot named
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKnife River Indian Villages National Historic SitePEAFIELD
12 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKnife River Indian Villages National Historic SitePEAFIELD II
29 July 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceTIM SCHWARTZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this place

38 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindStanton$500,000Homes were damaged with shingles and siding blown off.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStanton$400,000An 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 2006HailStanton$350,000Damage to vehicles, roofs, and windows. Five Mercer County Sheriff vehicles damaged.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStanton$300,000Numerous 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 2006HailStanton$300,000Extensive damage to 40 vehicles and several buildings at the Great River Energy Plant.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStanton$150,000A large wooden barn was completely destroyed.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindStanton$75,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts resulted in extensive tree damage in and around Stanton. Several windows were blown out.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStanton$8,000Strong thunderstorm winds blew down 12 inch diameter trees.
June 2008HailStanton$7,000Golfball 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 2015Thunderstorm WindStanton$5,000A trained spotter reported that large tree branches were broken.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindStanton$5,000Tree 18 inches in diameter knocked over.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindStanton$1,000A six inch in diameter tree was blown down in Stanton.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindStanton-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated by the public.
June 2008HailStanton-Golfball to tennis ball size hail lasted for nine minutes. No report of damage was received from this event.
June 2008HailStanton-The public reported hail up to the size of softballs. No report of damage was received from this event.
July 2008HailStanton-No reports of damage were received.
July 2008HailStanton-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 1998HailStanton-Hail occurred with 44 knot wind (51 mph).
June 2024Thunderstorm WindStanton-no account filed
July 2024HailStanton-no account filed
July 2024HailStanton-no account filed
July 2024HailStanton-no account filed
August 2023Funnel CloudStanton-no account filed
August 2023HailStanton-no account filed
August 2023HailStanton-no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindStanton-no account filed
July 2020Thunderstorm WindStanton-no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindStanton-no account filed
June 2016HailStanton-no account filed
June 2016HailStanton-no account filed
July 2016HailStanton-no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindStanton-no account filed
May 2012HailStanton-no account filed
June 2008HailStanton-no account filed
June 2008HailStanton-no account filed
September 2005HailStanton-no account filed
June 2001HailStanton-no account filed
August 2000HailStanton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Knife River Village (historical)0.7 miles8
Hazen12.9 miles5
Pick City13.7 miles7
Truax14.3 miles6
Beulah21.4 miles6
Zap28.8 miles5
Golden Valley36.3 miles7

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 StantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1001435The 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.