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Wing, North Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in Wing Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58494. The Survey maps it on the Wing quadrangle. 132 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,903 feet above sea level.

Wing within Burleigh County

On record in Wing

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Wing fell from 152 to 132 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
2010152
2020132-20 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Wing in 2016, burning about 280 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServicePH0ENIX-01
27 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use30 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceWING 01

Every fire recorded in Burleigh County

Storms near this place

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wing in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 3 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
September 2016Thunderstorm WindWing$75,000A barn was destroyed, and a roof was damaged on another building.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWing$50,000Damage was reported near Wing from severe thunderstorm wind gusts. Several trees and power lines were blown down, along with damage to a deck on a home.
July 2010LightningWing$8,000Time of this event is based on radar. Lightning struck an old barn and started a fire sometime early Tuesday morning, July 27th. The barn was allowed to burn itself out. A tractor inside the barn was also destroyed.
September 2025Tornado (EFU)Wing-The tornado touched down in an open field northwest of Wing and impacted no structures. There was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown).
September 2025Tornado (EFU)Wing-This is the first event entry for one tornado that passed through two counties, Burleigh and Sheridan. The tornado touched down in an open field north of Wing and impacted no structures before it ended south of Denhoff. During the time this tornado was on the ground, another tornado which caused damage developed in Sheridan County south of Denhoff. With this tornado, there was no damage to evaluate. By National Weather Service policy the tornado is rated EF-U (Unknown).
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWing-The public estimated thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2013HailWing-Strong winds to fifty miles per hour accompanied the large hail.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWing-Small tree branches were down. Nickel sized hail accompanied the strong winds.
August 2000HailWing-Hail caused broken windows and 400 acres of crop damage.
May 1998HailWing-Total path was 10 miles long and 4 miles wide and extended from 1 mile east of Wing to 1 east of Tuttle.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWing-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWing-no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindWing-no account filed
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWing-no account filed
July 2011HailWing-no account filed
July 2009Funnel CloudWing-no account filed
July 2009Funnel CloudWing-no account filed
July 2009Funnel CloudWing-no account filed
June 2007HailWing-no account filed
August 2004HailWing-no account filed
June 1999Tornado (F0)Wing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Burleigh 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
Arena6.3 miles6
Regan13.3 miles6
Still19.0 miles6
Driscoll21.7 miles7
Sterling22.6 miles7
McKenzie23.0 miles7
Menoken25.8 miles10
Baldwin26.2 miles6

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 WingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2005604The 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 1032845. 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.