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Wheatland, North Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wheatland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58079. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle. 92 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Wheatland within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Wheatland grew from 68 to 92 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
201068
202092+24 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

8 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wheatland between 2015 and 2019, burning about 13 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-028
7 May 2018Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-029
6 May 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service36TH ST 148TH AVE
5 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest Service5/5/2019
20 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceCASSELTON RIFLE RANGE
2 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI-94 MM326
11 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service2018-030
1 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSMITH'S HAYBALE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheatland in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2005Tornado (F1)Wheatland$10,000A dust-shrouded tornado tore through an Interstate 94 construction zone and dislodged temporary lane markers, twisted highway signs, and flipped over lighted arrow signals. This resulted in an hour of disrupted interstate travel. The tornado was viewed by Embden and Casselton storm spotters as it crossed nearly 3 miles of open field.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWheatland-A few large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2006Tornado (F0)Wheatland-A persistent wall cloud with pendant funnel was observed as it tracked from about 3 miles southwest of Absaraka to about 3 miles east of Chaffee. A brief touchdown was observed in an open field and it produced a brief dust/debris cloud.
June 2015HailWheatland-no account filed
September 2013HailWheatland-no account filed
May 2005Funnel CloudWheatland-no account filed
June 2002HailWheatland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Myra4.0 miles11
Magnolia4.5 miles11
Absaraka5.5 miles11
Casselton7.1 miles12
Everest7.4 miles11
Embden8.6 miles11
Chaffee9.2 miles11
Amenia9.5 miles8

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 WheatlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2949000The 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 1032759. 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.