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.
Population over time
2 figuresWheatland 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 68 | |
| 2020 | 92 | +24 (+35%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1895 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Wheatland quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Casselton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 2015Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 May 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-028 |
| 7 May 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-029 |
| 6 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 36TH ST 148TH AVE |
| 5 May 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | 5/5/2019 |
| 20 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | CASSELTON RIFLE RANGE |
| 2 May 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | North Dakota State Forest Service | I-94 MM326 |
| 11 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 2018-030 |
| 1 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SMITH'S HAYBALE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Tornado (F1) | Wheatland | $10,000 | A 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheatland | - | A few large tree limbs were blown down. |
| August 2006 | Tornado (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 2015 | Hail | Wheatland | - | no account filed |
| September 2013 | Hail | Wheatland | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Wheatland | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Wheatland | - | 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 Wheatland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2949000 | 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 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.






