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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.

Wilton within McLean County

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

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

1 since 2003

Regional 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
Natural1

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
23 August 2003Natural1,500 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWILTON

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWilton$50,000Trees blown down and roof blown off pole barn.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWilton$20,000Large trees were uprooted in the city of Wilton.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWilton$5,000A section of fence was destroyed and one inch diameter branches were broken.
June 2008HailWilton-Pea to penny size hail was reported along with heavy rain.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWilton-Multiple reports of high winds around the small city of White Shield. Small branches broken.
June 2002Funnel CloudWilton-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 2000HailWilton-Power outage in town.
June 2023HailWilton-no account filed
August 2023Funnel CloudWilton-no account filed
June 2022HailWilton-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWilton-no account filed
July 2015HailWilton-no account filed
July 2015HailWilton-no account filed
September 2014HailWilton-no account filed
September 2014HailWilton-no account filed
July 2011HailWilton-no account filed
July 2011HailWilton-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindWilton-no account filed
August 2004HailWilton-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWilton-no account filed
May 1998HailWilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Merida9.7 miles8
Washburn15.8 miles9
Falkirk21.7 miles9
Mercer23.2 miles6
Turtle Lake25.6 miles8
Underwood27.8 miles8
Riverdale Junction31.3 miles8
Coleharbor35.4 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 WiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2068677The 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.