Wilton, North Dakota
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Wilton City. It lies in ZIP code area 58579. The Survey maps it on the Wilton quadrangle. 718 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,172 feet above sea level.
On record in Wilton
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 2 records
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Churchlisted 1982
Soo Line Depotlisted 1978
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.
- 1950 USGS Wilton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Wilton quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS McClusky quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wilton in 2003, burning about 1,500 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 August 2003 | Natural | 1,500 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | WILTON |
Storms near this place
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilton in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilton | $50,000 | Trees blown down and roof blown off pole barn. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilton | $20,000 | Large trees were uprooted in the city of Wilton. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilton | $5,000 | A section of fence was destroyed and one inch diameter branches were broken. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Wilton | - | Pea to penny size hail was reported along with heavy rain. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilton | - | Multiple reports of high winds around the small city of White Shield. Small branches broken. |
| June 2002 | Funnel Cloud | Wilton | - | Funnel last less than a minute then retreated back into the parent cloud. Storm chaser reported a rotating wall cloud in the same location. |
| November 2000 | Hail | Wilton | - | Power outage in town. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| June 2022 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| September 2014 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilton | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Wilton | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merida | 9.7 miles | 8 | |
| Washburn | 15.8 miles | 9 | |
| Falkirk | 21.7 miles | 9 | |
| Mercer | 23.2 miles | 6 | |
| Turtle Lake | 25.6 miles | 8 | |
| Underwood | 27.8 miles | 8 | |
| Riverdale Junction | 31.3 miles | 8 | |
| Coleharbor | 35.4 miles | 9 |
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 Wilton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2068677 | 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 1036350. 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.




