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.
Population over time
2 figuresSutton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | |
| 2020 | 17 | 0 (0%) |
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.
- 1952 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Sutton quadrangle1:24000
- 1971 USGS New Rockford quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2016Regional 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 burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | OLD ROGER LONGNECKER FARM |
| 13 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | COLLIER'S AGAIN |
Storms near this place
15 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sutton | - | 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sutton | - | Received a report of a 59 mph wind gust measured at a personal weather station. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sutton | - | A few large 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches broken down, along with dime to nickel size hail. |
| August 2021 | Hail | Sutton | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Sutton | - | Hail covered the ground along highway 200 north of Sutton. |
| June 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Sutton | - | A spotter located west of Cooperstown reported the end of the short track tornado as it lifted. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sutton | - | Strong winds blew down a barn. |
| July 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Sutton | - | This tornado tracked intermittently along the path and knocked down several trees in shelterbelts. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Sutton | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Sutton | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Sutton | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Sutton | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Sutton | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Sutton | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Sutton | - | 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.
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 Sutton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7650194 | 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 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.




