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Sutton, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mabel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58484. The Survey maps it on the Sutton quadrangle. 17 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,470 feet above sea level.

Sutton within Griggs County

Population over time

2 figures

Sutton grew from 17 to 17 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
201017
2020170 (0%)

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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sutton in 2016, burning about 251 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 burning2

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
1 May 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceOLD ROGER LONGNECKER FARM
13 April 2016Debris and open burning250 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCOLLIER'S AGAIN

Every fire recorded in Griggs County

Storms near this place

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sutton in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2025Thunderstorm WindSutton-Personal weather station via Weather Underground, I.D. Ramsey Farm - KNDBINFO8. Measured gust to 71 mph. Duration of severe gusts 40 minutes. Highest sustained wind 67 mph. Extreme wind gusts associated with MCV on backside of derecho.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSutton-Received a report of a 59 mph wind gust measured at a personal weather station.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSutton-A few large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches broken down, along with dime to nickel size hail.
August 2021HailSutton-Received a public report of hail, with the north side of town receiving golfball-sized hail, and the south side receiving pea to quarter-sized hail.
June 2019HailSutton-Hail covered the ground along highway 200 north of Sutton.
June 2015Funnel CloudSutton-A spotter located west of Cooperstown reported the end of the short track tornado as it lifted.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSutton-Strong winds blew down a barn.
July 2011Tornado (EF0)Sutton-This tornado tracked intermittently along the path and knocked down several trees in shelterbelts. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph.
June 2020HailSutton-no account filed
June 2019HailSutton-no account filed
July 2017HailSutton-no account filed
August 2006HailSutton-no account filed
June 2002HailSutton-no account filed
August 2001HailSutton-no account filed
September 2001HailSutton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Griggs 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
Revere6.7 miles8
Binford12.1 miles8
Mose12.2 miles8
Jessie14.4 miles9
Hannaford14.7 miles8
Walum15.9 miles8
Shepard16.3 miles9
Cooperstown17.0 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 SuttonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7650194The 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 1032401. 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.