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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.

Argyle within Marshall County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Argyle 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.

YearPeople Change
2010639
2020544-95 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 11 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

10 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning4

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
27 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 1994Debris and open burning30 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 December 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 November 2020Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 November 2020Arson/incendiarism40 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 October 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 October 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 October 2011Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Tornado (EF1)Argyle$350,000This 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 2006Flash FloodArgyle$50,000Extensive 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 2019LightningArgyle$40,000The 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 2022Thunderstorm WindArgyle-Received a report that large tree branches were blown down, along with several fence posts.
June 2016HailArgyle-Dime to quarter sized hail fell.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArgyle-A few large branches were blown down in shelterbelts. Very heavy rain also fell.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArgyle-Several older trees were knocked over in addition to some three to five inch diameter branches.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindArgyle-Many large trees were blown down in town. It took city crews an entire day to clean up the debris.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindArgyle-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindArgyle-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 2002HailArgyle-The hail covered the grass with some drifting.
August 2002Flash FloodArgyle-Rural roads were flooded.
July 2001Flash FloodArgyle-Water was reported over highway 19.
June 2012HailArgyle-no account filed
July 2008Funnel CloudArgyle-no account filed
June 2003HailArgyle-no account filed
May 2002HailArgyle-no account filed
July 2001HailArgyle-no account filed
July 1999HailArgyle-no account filed
May 1998HailArgyle-no account filed
July 1996HailArgyle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Luna5.7 miles11
Valley Court8.5 miles11
Stephen8.5 miles11
Warren9.7 miles10
March10.3 miles10
Florian12.7 miles9
Radium13.1 miles10
Alvarado13.3 miles10

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 ArgyleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232739The 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.