Dassel, Minnesota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dassel Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55325. The Survey maps it on the Dassel quadrangle. 1,472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,089 feet above sea level.
On record in Dassel
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
District No. 48 Schoollisted 1997
Universal Laboratories Buildinglisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresDassel grew from 1,469 to 1,472 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 | 1,469 | |
| 2020 | 1,472 | +3 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Dassel quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Dassel quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Litchfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dassel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nussbaum Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
53 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dassel in 53 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 36 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2011 | Hail | Dassel | 1 hurt, $500 | In addition, a driver was injured when hail the size of a baseball hit his vehicle's windshield. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Dassel | $800,000 | Hail dented cars, along with roofs and siding of many houses. Some windows broken. Property damage total is for the Dassel area on 9-21-05. |
| July 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Dassel | $200,000 | Damage survey team reported downed trees in Meeker County. The tornado continued into Wright County, where a roof was ripped off a home and some sheds were destroyed. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Dassel | $100,000 | A photo of hail next to a ruler measured 3.75 inches with the largest stone near Hwy 15. There was damage to the siding on the west side of the house. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | $100,000 | Semitrailer blown off highway 12. Estimated windspeed. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | $25,000 | A large shed was damaged, including a tree that blew down on a vehicle south of Dassel. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | $10,000 | 70 foot HAM radio tower toppled. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | $5,000 | A few large trees and power lines were blown down in Dassel. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Dassel | - | Multiple reports of quarter sized hail south of Dassel. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | Delayed report, time estimated from radar. Tree down across road. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Dassel | - | A picture of hail next to a ruler on social media showed hail slightly larger than 3 inches. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Dassel | - | Golfball size hail was reported 2 miles north of Dassel via social media. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | A tree was blown across a road north of Dassel. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | A few trees were blown down near Dassel. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Dassel | - | Small branches felled as well. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | Trees toppled. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Dassel | - | Dime sized hail was reported on the west side of Lake Jennie. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Dassel | - | A law enforcement officer parked on 183rd Street reported that golf ball sized hail fell for 14 minutes. |
| September 2005 | Hail | Dassel | - | Quarter sized hail was reported 1 mile north of Lamson. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Dassel | - | The time was estimated. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | Several six inch diameter branches down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | Tree down. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | Eighty foot HAM radio tower downed. Few shingles off house. Large tree toppled. Trained observer watched downburst as it approached. |
| September 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | Hailed on and off for 30 minutes. |
| July 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Dassel | - | Tree blown onto house. Barn damaged. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| September 2007 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Dassel | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dassel | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West View Terrace | 0.4 miles | 10 | |
| Jennie | 5.5 miles | 10 | |
| Darwin | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lamson | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Casey | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Kingston | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Greenleaf | 11.8 miles | 11 | |
| Forest City | 12.1 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 Dassel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1004350 | 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 642646. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.





