Heaton is an unincorporated community in Wells County, North Dakota, United States.

Heaton was heavily damaged by a tornado in 1910, and some blame the decline of the town on that event.

[2] The storm killed two people and destroyed both of the town's grain elevators, and demolished the hardware store, the pool hall, the city hall, the depot, and many residences.

[3] Anti-government tax protester Gordon Kahl was born in Heaton.

Starting in the late 1990s, and picking up speed in the mid-late 2000s, all remaining abandoned buildings on the townsite have been demolished, one by one.