Argyle, Minnesota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Argyle City. It lies in ZIP code area 56713. The Survey maps it on the Argyle quadrangle. 544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 846 feet above sea level.
On record in Argyle
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
Old Mill State Park WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resourceslisted 1989- Larson Milllisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresArgyle fell from 639 to 544 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 | 639 | |
| 2020 | 544 | -95 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1918 USGS Argyle quadrangle1:62500
- 1952 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Stephen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Argyle quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Thief River Falls quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Argyle between 1994 and 2020, burning about 91 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 1994 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 December 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 November 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 October 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 October 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 14 October 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Argyle in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Argyle | $350,000 | This tornado was partially embedded in downburst winds and heavy rain. It tracked through one farmyard and across the town of Argyle, and ended about 1 mile east of town. Grain bins were crumpled, trees snapped, and shingles torn off roofs. In Argyle, a tall grain bin was caved in and its top conveyor was torn off at the elevator complex, and the bleachers were tossed at the baseball field. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Argyle | $50,000 | Extensive street flooding occurred in Argyle after nearly 6 inches of rain fell in less than 3 hours. Water flowed to a depth of up to 2 feet in some streets and portions of U.S. Highway 75 were temporarily blocked. Ditches and fields were flooded in the surrounding area throughout the night and into the following forenoon. |
| May 2019 | Lightning | Argyle | $40,000 | The Minnesota Fire Marshal determined that a house fire started from a lightning strike. A corner of the house, the attached garage, and a back porch were all damaged by the fire. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Received a report that large tree branches were blown down, along with several fence posts. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Argyle | - | Dime to quarter sized hail fell. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | A few large branches were blown down in shelterbelts. Very heavy rain also fell. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Several older trees were knocked over in addition to some three to five inch diameter branches. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Many large trees were blown down in town. It took city crews an entire day to clean up the debris. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | Large tree limbs were blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Argyle | - | The roof was peeled off a warehouse and large doors were torn off a building. Farm machinery was blown across a yard and power poles were snapped off. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Argyle | - | The hail covered the grass with some drifting. |
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Argyle | - | Rural roads were flooded. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Argyle | - | Water was reported over highway 19. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Argyle | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Argyle | - | 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 Argyle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2232739 | 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 639435. 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.








