Darfur, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Darfur City. It lies in ZIP code area 56022. The Survey maps it on the Darfur quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,161 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDarfur fell from 108 to 84 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 | 108 | |
| 2020 | 84 | -24 (-22%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Darfur quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Darfur in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 13 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darfur | - | A large tree blew down near Butterfield and caused a gas leak. No injuries were reported. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Darfur | - | A swath of large hail, up to 1.5 inches in diameter, was observed from near Darfur, southeast to west of St. James. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darfur | - | A few large trees were blown down in the town of Darfur. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Darfur | - | Rainfall amounts exceeded five inches in portions of Watonwan County, with roads closed due to flooding in the town of St. James. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darfur | - | A few sheds toppled. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darfur | - | Numerous trees down. Fifty percent of crops flattened over portions of the extreme northwest portion of the county. |
| March 1998 | Tornado (F4) | Darfur | - | Tornado moving through southern Brown county brushed extreme northwest Watonwan county. See Brown county narrative. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Darfur | - | Large branches down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2016 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Darfur | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Darfur | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sveadahl | 5.5 miles | 9 | |
| Butterfield | 6.8 miles | 6 | |
| Saint James Place | 11.5 miles | 7 | |
| Saint James | 12.2 miles | 7 | |
| Echols | 12.3 miles | 7 | |
| Odin | 13.7 miles | 6 | |
| La Salle | 14.3 miles | 10 | |
| Grogan | 16.2 miles | 10 |
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 Darfur | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2334558 | 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 642638. 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.
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.






